0 past simple and past participle of misfire
1 If a gun misfires, the bullet fails to come out.
2 When an engine misfires, the fuel inside it starts to burn at the wrong moment:
3 If a plan misfires, it does not have the result that was intended:
This was the paradox the president faced after his purge had misfired.
One firework, which must have misfired, came over my fence and exploded above the lawn.
It was not made with that intention and was intended to be a mildly facetious observation, which evidently misfired.
We can guess the reasons for this, but they misfired.
But the post has misfired in my area.
That brings me to the matter of misfired shells—shells that have not hit their target.
It misfired on the restriction of definition and on its narrow application.
The issue of industrial relations and the code has misfired politically.
