fail - fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"
fail - judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"
flunk
(Informal)
verbfail, screw up(informal), flop in(informal), plough(Brit. slang), be unsuccessful in, not make the grade at(informal), not come up to scratch in(informal), not come up to the mark in(informal)He flunked his final exams.
[ˈflʌŋk]vt(mainly US) (= fail) [+ exam, course] → être recalé(e) à; [+ course] → être recalé(e) en He flunked a history exam → Il a étérecalé à un examen d'histoire.
[flʌŋk]vt (esp Am) (fam) (course, exam) → essere bocciato/aorrespinto/a in or a
flunk
(flaŋk) verb
a slang word for to fail in an examination. I flunked (maths). druip; gedruip يَسْقُط في إمْتِحان скъсват ме bombar rupnout durchfallen dumpe αποτυγχάνω σε εξέταση, κόβομαιcatear, suspender läbi põruma رد شدن؛ رد کردن reputtaa rater לְהִיכָּשֵׁל असफल होना srušiti (pasti) na ispitu megbukik, elzúg gagal falla essere bocciato in 落第する (시험 등을) 실패하다 susikirsti per egzaminą izkrist eksāmenā gagal zakken voor stryke, dumpeoblać ناكامه كېدل، ماته خوړل ناكامه كول: ماته وركول chumbar a pica завалить prepadnúť pasti (pri izpitu) pasti spricka, köra, bli kuggad สอบตก kalmak, çakmak 考試不及格 провал امتحان میں ناکام ہونا trượt (một kỳ thi, một lớp đại học...) 考试不及格
A professor at Colorado State University and animal behavior expert who is herself autistic, Grandin has a brilliant ability to get to the heart of the matter, and explains why a simple 10-point system that looks at specific items is far more effective than an endless list of 100 points, many of them trivial, in which a poorly run farm could pass 95 of the points yet badly flunk the five most important ones.
Rather than face mandatory summer school or even being held back, more and more high school students who flunk courses are going online to take credit-recovery classes, the Detroit News reports.