Definitions

miss fire

VERB

miscarry

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abort fall through

STRONG

backslide blunder decline deteriorate fall fizzle flop flounder fold founder misfire miss

WEAK

back wrong horse be defeated be demoted be found lacking be in vain be ruined break down come to naught come to nothing fall flat fall short go astray go down go down swinging go downhill go up in smoke go wrong hit bottom hit the skids lose control lose out lose status meet with disaster miss the boat miss the mark play into run aground turn out badly

Antonyms

STRONG

accomplish achieve ascend build correct develop do well go up improve rise succeed

Example Sentences

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You see, if by any chance our trap should miss fire, and they come after us, they’d head along the straight road to Gandela.

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram

“You reckon she’ll miss fire till he’s well again?”

From The Coming of the Law by Seltzer, Charles Alden

It’s too good a gun to be thrown away; and I can say that it don’t miss fire once in ten times.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

After all the "Bolton Baby" might miss fire by a second or two.

From The World Peril of 1910 by Griffith, George Chetwynd

Jack and his shipmates, in the meantime, were busily employed in re-sharpening their hangers, and looking to their pistols and ammunition, putting in fresh flints, and seeing that they were not likely to miss fire.

From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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