How to pronounce“backfiring”in English
frankly, will they be wrongfooted in perhaps maybe a matter of not days, but hours? So, if that was actually his aim, then quite frankly, it may be
backfiring. And on China, I mean, these these tariffs were 125%, the White House say actually the total when you take into consideration earlier tariffs of
20%, it all adds up to 145. I mean, it's whopping. It's eye watering whatever numbers you look at. Um, and we are in this trade war now between the United
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Definitions of “backfiring”
The occurrence of a backfire.
“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.”
A failure that leads to further misfortune.
present participle and gerund of backfire