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How to pronounce “back fire”
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Pronunciation guide for back fire
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of back fire with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- I stepped out of grief -- by dancing with fire
he considered going back into the fire to find her,
- Definition summary
- A small, controlled fire set in the path of a larger uncontrolled fire, in order to limit the spread of the large fire by removing its fuel.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce back fire
I stepped out of grief -- by dancing with fire

he considered going back into the fire to find her,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “back fire”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A small, controlled fire set in the path of a larger uncontrolled fire, in order to limit the spread of the large fire by removing its fuel.
- An explosion produced either by a running internal combustion engine that occurs in the air intake or exhaust system rather than inside the combustion chamber or unburned fuel or hydrocarbons ignited somewhere in the exhaust system.
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