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reprobar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • damn interjection Used to express anger, frustration, or surprise.
  • fail verb To be unsuccessful in achieving something.
  • flunk verb To fail a class, test, or course.
  • rebuke noun A sharp expression of disapproval; a scolding.

Senses

reprobar is used for these senses in English:

  • damn To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
  • fail (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
  • flunk (ambitransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
  • flunk out (idiomatic) To fail to finish school, or a given subject, program or course, due to academic shortcomings; i.e., to have too many flunking or failing grades (marks).
  • rebuke (of a person) To criticise harshly; to reprove.

damn — full definition

  1. interjection Used to express anger, frustration, or surprise.
  2. adverb Used to intensify a statement, similar to "very" or "extremely."
  3. verb To condemn or criticize harshly.

fail — full definition

  1. verb To be unsuccessful in achieving something.
  2. verb To stop working correctly, as of a machine or system.
  3. verb To let someone down by not meeting their expectations or needs.
  4. noun Informal: an instance of failure or something that turns out badly.

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