Crossword-Solution: BACKFIRE 8 letters, 39 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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We have 39 clues for the answer “BACKFIRE”

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Arm problem 1 answer
(Of a plan) blow up in one’s face 1 answer
set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire 1 answer
Work out badly, in a way 1 answer
Rebound adversely 1 answer
Rebound (on the originator) 1 answer
Produce an undesired effect 1 answer
Produce an undesirable result 1 answer
Have the wrong effect 1 answer
Have the opposite effect from what was intended 1 answer
Have the opposite effect 1 answer
Plan go wrong spectacularly 1 answer
Have exactly the wrong effect 1 answer
Boomerang, as a plan 1 answer
Street noise. 4 answers
CAPACITY OR POWER TO PRODUCE A DESIRED EFFECT 11 answers
fall through 29 answers
fizzle 32 answers
Kick Back 33 answers
Boomerang 34 answers
MOVE in reverse 38 answers
Explode 41 answers
Ignite 42 answers
Backlash 44 answers
Rebound 47 answers
Bounce Back 49 answers
misfire 49 answers
miscarry 49 answers
Flunk 50 answers
go wrong 52 answers
Burst 53 answers
Falter 54 answers
Fall Short 54 answers
Bang 59 answers
flounder 70 answers
Recoil 71 answers
fail 80 answers
Flop-___ 86 answers
Blunder 87 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BACKFIRE (5)

When Pete jumped in and threw in the clutch, there was a backfire that sounded like the crack of doom.
Jean of the Lazy A B. M. Bower 1996
Grannis and his buccaneers were behind the Automatic, but it was possible to direct and strengthen the backfire which the Era and other conservative newspapers had already begun.
A Far Country, Book 3 Winston Churchill 2004
Every one thought of firearms, but, as a matter of fact, something had gone wrong with the motor, what in those old-fashioned contrivances was called a backfire.
In the Days of the Comet H. G. Wells 2001
Saddam Hussein and the Iraqis' invasion of Kuwait demonstrate when this Potemkin Village model can backfire.
Shock and Awe Harlan K. Ullman 2005
Suppression, while very often justified and necessary in the flux of human relationship, always carries a social cost which must be liquidated, and also a backfire danger which must be insured against.
An American Idyll Cornelia Stratton Parker 2005

Quotes with BACKFIRE (3)

Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.
Natalya Vorobyova Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Favoring specialization over intelligence is exactly wrong, especially in high tech. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it's a given the role for which you're hiring is going to change. Yesterday's widget will be obsolete tomorrow, and hiring a specialist in such a dynamic environment can backfire. A specialist brings an inherent bias to solving problems that spawns from the very expertise that is his putative advantage, and may be threatene…
Eric Schmidt How Google Works
I always had trouble with the feet of Jón the First, or Pre-Jón, as I called him later. He would frequently put them in front of me in the evening and tell me to take off his socks and rub his toes, soles, heels and calves. It was quite impossible for me to love these Icelandic men's feet that were shaped like birch stumps, hard and chunky, and screaming white as the wood when the bark is stripped from it. Yes, and as cold and damp, too. The toes had horny nails that resemble…
Hallgrimur Helgason
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, NYT, WSJ.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1965–2018).