misfired in English

verb
1
(of a gun or missile) fail to discharge or fire properly.
In Saudi Arabia, it appeared the missiles misfired .
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "misfired" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "misfired", or refer to the context using the word "misfired" in the English Dictionary.

1. Tom's gun misfired.

2. 6 His attempt at a joke misfired.

3. Synonyms for Backfired include boomeranged, failed, rebounded, rebound, miscarried, foundered, flopped, misfired, backlashed and bombed

4. Acquired admired aspired attired backfired Bemired conspired desired enquired expired hardwired inspired misfired perspired refired rehired required retired rewired transpired umpired

5. Princess Royal's 'A' turret stopped working effectively early in the battle: the left gun was rendered inoperable when the breech pinion gear sheared, and the right gun misfired frequently.

6. It also misfired on a message I sent myself from my vacation location (but it was so abtruse and specific that the filter could not fail to think it was SPAM).

7. Two torpedoes from her first volley of three missed and the third misfired, so the cruiser had to turn about to fire her other broadside of three, two of which appeared to hit.

8. Abtruse Example sentences with "Abtruse", translation memory It also misfired on a message I sent myself from my vacation location (but it was so Abtruse and specific that the filter could not fail to think it was SPAM)

9. Out of 20,000 messages, K9 only missed 2 SPAMs I had to remove manually. It also misfired on a message I sent myself from my vacation location (but it was so abtruse and specific that the filter could not fail to think it was SPAM).