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1. backfire
noun. ['ˈbækˌfaɪr'] a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine.
Synonyms
- blowup
- detonation
Antonyms
- disapprove
- disallow
- decertify
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Rhymes with Backfire
- brushfire
- crossfire
- foxfire
- gunfire
- hamsphire
- hellfire
- sunfire
Sentences with backfire
1. Verb, base form
Punishing a teenager who was unaware that she could not leave without permission can backfire.
2. backfire
verb. ['ˈbækˌfaɪr'] emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire.
Synonyms
- make noise
- noise
Antonyms
- go off
- stop
- disappear
3. backfire
noun. ['ˈbækˌfaɪr'] a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path.
Antonyms
- forbid
4. backfire
verb. ['ˈbækˌfaɪr'] set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire.
Synonyms
- fire
- burn down
Antonyms
- running
- stand still
- discontinue
5. backfire
noun. ['ˈbækˌfaɪr'] a miscalculation that recoils on its maker.
Synonyms
- boomerang
- miscalculation
- misreckoning
Antonyms
- dematerialize
- dematerialise
- stay in place
- be born
6. backfire
noun. ['ˈbækˌfaɪr'] the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired.
Synonyms
- backblast
- blowup
- explosion
- blowback
- detonation
Antonyms
- fail
- appear
- prevent
- failing
7. backfire
verb. ['ˈbækˌfaɪr'] come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect.
Synonyms
- recoil
- go on
- happen
- hap
- occur
- pass off
- come about
- take place
- fall out
- backlash
Antonyms
- continuant consonant
- decrease
- extinguish
- hypopigmentation