Backfiring

"Backfiring" in a Sentence (3 examples)

The car keeps backfiring.

This bullying is backfiring.

Backfiring in mercury arc rectifiers has now been pinpointed as the primary cause of the Glasgow transformer failures. […] The chief causes of rectifier backfiring in the Glasgow units were overheating or unfavourable anode/cathode temperature differential; it has proved possible to overcome these, although occasional backfires do still occur.

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