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misfire

English

  1. 🔊 an explosion that fails to occur
  2. 🔊 a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
  3. 🔊 fail to fire or detonate
    “The guns misfired”

Similar words

miss dud abort abortion abortive attempt blow up come a cropper come to nothing dud explode fail fail miserably failure fall through fizz out fizzle fizzle out flop get nowhere go amiss go astray go phut go wrong hang up