| misfire | | |
| n. (event) | 1. dud, misfire | an explosion that fails to occur. |
| ~ equipment failure, breakdown | a cessation of normal operation.; "there was a power breakdown" |
| n. (event) | 2. misfire, miss | a failure to hit (or meet or find etc). |
| ~ failure | an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose.; "the surprise party was a complete failure" |
| v. (competition) | 3. misfire | fail to fire or detonate.; "The guns misfired" |
| ~ conk out, go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go | stop operating or functioning.; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" |
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