funk
noun
cowering fear; state of great fright or terror.
have funked
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present perfectof funk.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In such a panic as yours was, the average girl would have funked absolutely.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
"You oughtn't to have funked telling your mother what you meant to do."
From Fraternity by John Galsworthy
It is true that Oswald had his boots on, but I trust he would not have funked the unknown terrors of the deep, even without his boots.
From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Wednesday, December 15th.—A less adventurous Minister than Mr. Churchill might have funked the task of justifying to a House of Economists a Supplementary Army Estimate of forty millions.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
You make too much of what I did on Monday, it was nothing wonderful, and had I had time to think, I should probably have funked it.
From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood
