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- DictionaryMis·fire
verb
- 1. (of a gun or missile) fail to discharge or fire properly.
noun
- 1. a failure of a gun or missile to fire correctly or of fuel in an internal combustion engine to ignite: "the weapons are to be replaced because of problems with misfires"
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When an engine or weapon misfires, it doesn't function or ignite correctly. When a plan misfires, it doesn't work quite the way you imagined it would. The original meaning of misfire is gun-related; when pulling a trigger doesn't result in the gun firing, the gun misfires.
verb. (of a firearm or its projectile) to fail to fire, explode, or ignite as or when expected. (of a motor engine or vehicle, etc) to fail to fire at the appropriate time, often causing a backfire. to fail to operate or occur as intended.
MISFIRE definition: When something that you do misfires, it does not have the result that you intended: . Learn more.
Definition of misfire verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
misfire meaning: When something that you do misfires, it does not have the result that you intended: . Learn more.
Britannica Dictionary definition of MISFIRE. [no object] 1. of an engine : to fail to work properly because the fuel mixture burns at the wrong time. 2. of a gun : to fail to fire properly : to fail to shoot a bullet. 3. : to fail to have an intended effect : to fail to work properly.
1. intransitive verb. If a plan misfires, it goes wrong and does not have the results that you intend it to have. Some of their policies had misfired. Synonyms: fail, go wrong, fall through, miscarry More Synonyms of misfire. 2. intransitive verb. If an engine misfires, the fuel fails to start burning when it should.
