Crossword-Solution: MISFIRED
We have 5 clues for the answer “MISFIRED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Didn't go off | 1 answer |
| Didn't ignite properly | 1 answer |
| Didn't work as intended | 1 answer |
| Was a dud | 1 answer |
| Went awry | 3 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
ECMZAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MISFIRED (5)
His father had shot one, and he'd had to leave his hatchet sticking in the skull of another, when his rifle had misfired.
The house we dined in is supposed to be that in which Clive twice attempted his own life, and twice his pistol misfired.
What had happened? Whatever Tom had planned must have misfired, or something would have happened by now.
Back in same town again! Got up yesterday and motor misfired, had to make quick landing in a bayou and haul out machine myself aided by scared kids.
Isn't this a golden opportunity for publishing the news?_" Barbara's reply was tuned to an uncompromising note which Eric had met but once before--at the beginning of his last illness, when he had threatened to go away from her and the threat had misfired; when, too, he--"one of our conquerors"--had broken down and cringed to her; and she, with drawn cheeks and leaden eyes, had laid his head on her bosom and caressed him, not as a conqueror or a lover, but as a tired, sick child.
Quotes with MISFIRED (1)
Did you know that the Russians sent dogs into space? My mother told me this when I was a boy. Nobody knew the effects of space on a body, you see, so they sent dogs first. They found two little mongrels on the streets of Moscow. Pchelka, which means Little Bee, and Mushka, which means Little Fly. They went up in Sputnik 6. They were supposed to get into orbit and come right back. But the rockets misfired and shot them into space. Whenever I look at the night sky, I think abou…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2021).