Fail vs. Flunk
Failverb
(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
Failverb
(transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
Failverb
(transitive) To neglect.
Failverb
To cease to operate correctly.
Failverb
(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
Failverb
(ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
Failverb
(transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
Failverb
To miss attaining; to lose.
Failverb
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
Failverb
(archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
Failverb
(archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
Failverb
(archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
Failverb
(obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
Failverb
(obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
Failverb
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
Failnoun
Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
Failnoun
(slang) A failure condition of being unsuccessful
Failnoun
A failure something incapable of success
Failnoun
A failure, especially of a financial transaction a termination of an action.
Failnoun
A failing grade in an academic examination.
Failnoun
A piece of turf cut from grassland.
Failadjective
That is a failure.
Failverb
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
Failverb
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; - used with of.
Failverb
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
Failverb
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
Failverb
To perish; to die; - used of a person.
Failverb
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
Failverb
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
Failverb
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
Failverb
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent; as, many credit unions failed in the late 1980's.
Failverb
To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
Failverb
To miss of attaining; to lose.
Failnoun
Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; - mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
Failnoun
Death; decease.
Failverb
fail to do something; leave something undone;
Failverb
be unsuccessful;
Failverb
disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake;
Failverb
stop operating or functioning;
Failverb
be unable;
Failverb
judge unacceptable;
Failverb
fail to get a passing grade;
Failverb
fall short in what is expected;
Failverb
become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close;
Failverb
prove insufficient;
Failverb
get worse;
Failverb
be unsuccessful in achieving one's goal
Failverb
be unsuccessful in (an examination or interview)
Failverb
(of a person or a commodity) be unable to meet the standards set by (a test of quality or eligibility)
Failverb
judge (a candidate in an examination or test) not to have passed
Failverb
neglect to do something
Failverb
behave in a way contrary to expectations by not doing something
Failverb
used to express a strong belief that something must be the case
Failverb
used to indicate that something invariably happens
Failverb
desert or let down (someone)
Failverb
cease to work properly; break down
Failverb
become weaker or of poorer quality
Failverb
(of rain or a crop or supply) be insufficient when needed or expected
Failverb
(of a business or a person) cease trading because of lack of funds
Failnoun
a mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test
Failnoun
a mistake, failure, or instance of poor performance
Flunkverb
Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
Flunkverb
Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade.
Flunkverb
To shirk (a task or duty).
Flunkverb
To back out through fear. (Commonly in the phrase 'flunk it', the 'it' referring to a specific task avoided; sometimes without specific reference describing a person's attitude to life in general.)
Flunkverb
To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
Flunkverb
To fail in; to fail to pass (a test, examination, or course of study).
Flunkverb
To shirk, as a task or duty.
Flunknoun
A failure or backing out
Flunkverb
fail to get a passing grade;
Flunk
Flunk is a Norwegian electronic band consisting of producer Ulf Nygaard, guitarist Jo Bakke, vocalist Anja Øyen Vister and bassist Ole Kristian Wetten. Jo Bakke was a drummer with Flunk until 2020.
