misfire
1. an explosion that fails to occur • Syn: dud • Hypernyms: breakdown, equipment failure 2. a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) • Syn: miss • Derivationally related forms: miss (for: miss) • Hypernyms: failure
fail to fire or detonate (Freq. 1) - The guns misfired • Hypernyms: fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down • Verb Frames: - Something ----s
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