misfire
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈmɪsˌfaɪɹ/
misfire (plural misfires)
- An act of misfiring.
- German: Fehlzündung (of a spark plug)
- Russian: осе́чка
misfire (misfires, present participle misfiring; past and past participle misfired)
- (firearm) To fail to discharge properly.
- (of an engine) To fail to ignite in the proper sequence.
- (by extension) To fail to achieve the anticipated result.
- His practical joke misfired and he nearly burnt my left hand.
- French: s'enrayer
- Italian: incepparsi
- Russian: осечься
- French: caler
- German: fehlzünden
- Spanish: encendido defectuoso, fallo de encendido
- German: fehlschlagen
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