backfiring

Meaning of backfiring

verb
  1. (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
  2. (of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
  3. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.
    His attempt to make money by importing luxury cars backfired horribly when fuel prices tripled.

noun

A failure that leads to further misfortune.

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Hyphenation of backfiring

back-fir-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • backfiring is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Anagrams of backfiring

fabricking

Words that rhyme with backfiring

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