misfire
verb (used without object)
(of a rifle or gun or of a bullet or shell) to fail to fire or explode.
are misfiring
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present progressiveof misfire.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Huntington patients often lash out physically at their caregivers — not out of malice, Benjamin Gilmer said, but because their brains are misfiring.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2022
On the bright side, the fact that both teams are misfiring badly from deep has kept the game close.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022
But achieving the first of those when the others are misfiring is the mark of a real golfer.
From Golf Digest ● May 17, 2019
His players are misfiring and picking fights with opponents, namely the combative Diego Costa, who has yet to open his scoring account this campaign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2015
But in many cases surgeons hesitate to cut out those parts of the brain in which electrical impulses are misfiring and causing all the trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
