backfiring

Noun

countable uncountable

A failure that leads to further misfortune. / The occurrence of a backfire.

Japanese Meaning

期待とは逆の結果を生む失敗、または裏目に出る行為や出来事 / 逆効果、すなわち物事が予期しない不運や不利益を招く結果となること

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The project's backfiring turned a manageable problem into a company-wide crisis.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

そのプロジェクトの失敗は、対処可能だった問題を会社全体の危機に変えてしまった。

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Sense（1）

A failure that leads to further misfortune.

Sense（2）

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.

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backfirings

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