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How to pronounce “backfire”
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Pronunciation guide for backfire
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of backfire with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Invisible Armies
to counterinsurgency, because that can backfire,
- Definition summary
- (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc., intransitive) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
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How to pronounce backfire
Invisible Armies
to counterinsurgency, because that can backfire,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “backfire”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc., intransitive) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
- (of a reciprocating engine, intransitive) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.
- (firefighting) To set a back fire (small, controlled fire to limit spread of a larger fire).
- [Noun]
- (firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire.
- A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
- An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.
- An explosion in other equipment.
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