misfired

verb

past tense of misfire
as in failed
to go wrong their scheme to rob the bank misfired disastrously and landed them all in jail

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Recent Examples of misfired Court records show the teen tried to shoot Spencer with a rifle, but the gun misfired. — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 25 June 2026 Brunson rose for a deep three-pointer that misfired, but Anunoby weaved through traffic and tipped the ball in for a one-point lead to secure the win. — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026 Jasmine Nguyen was struck by a rocket projectile that misfired during a block party, flying across the street to her front year and lethally striking her. — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 19 Apr. 2026 Linscott said the researchers at first suspected their computer modelling misfired. — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026 After failing to score on the last 22 chances in the regular season, the Sabres have misfired on their first 13 man advantages in the series, including four Thursday. — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 The rocket’s upper stage was supposed to fire its engines two times to inject AST’s satellite into the proper orbit, but the stage misfired on the second burn, stranding the payload in a lower-than-planned orbit. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 28 May 2026 Overall the Lakers committed 21 more turnovers, giving up 26 points off the mistakes while paying dearly for every errant dribble or misfired pass against the swarming Thunder defenders. — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026 And in 2022, after a man pointed a gun at Argentina’s then-Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that misfired, Argentinians accused the ruling party of staging the incident to distract from Kirchner’s corruption trial. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misfired
  1. failed
  2. stalled
  3. miscarried
Verb
  • This was the case for Morocco’s opener, where Casemiro had eyes on two players at once while his team-mates failed to cut out the pass ahead of him.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 6 July 2026
  • The stutter-step approach by Bruno Guimãraes on the penalty kick failed anyway and the game remained scoreless into the first hydration break.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of failed
Verb
  • In the immediate aftermath, the Pentagon's annual must-pass defense policy bill was stalled.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Progress was stalled by World War I and Wanamaker's death in 1922.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 1 July 2026
Definition of stalled
Verb
  • Hamel became pregnant in October 2025 and miscarried, and her sister became pregnant soon after and also miscarried.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
  • Goodman miscarried multiple times, and lost at least one child in infancy.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of miscarried

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