Definition of Backfired

1. Verb. (past of backfire) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backfired

1. backfire [v] - See also: backfire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backfired

backest
backet
backets
backfall
backfalls
backfield
backfields
backfile
backfile conversion
backfiles
backfill
backfilled
backfilling
backfills
backfire
backfired (current term)
backfires
backfiring
backfisch
backfische
backfit
backfits
backfitted
backfitting
backflip
backflipped
backflipping
backflips
backflow
backflowing

Literary usage of Backfired

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Taking Off the Blindfold by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PERSECUTION backfired As described in earlier pages Justice Department prosecutors and federal judges acted to silence me by the sham ..."

2. Special Bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1918)
"The motor backfired and the handle struck the claimant, breaking his right arm at the wrist. Thia is the injury for which compensation is sought. ..."

3. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"In the earliest times, according to the legends, the raven was white. He earned his blackness when another scheme backfired. Escaping from a hut as he tried ..."

4. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"... mining had created.109 The Administration's policy to bring the situation "to a head" had backfired: the plan, rather than attracting support, lost it. ..."

5. When the Victim Is a Child by Debra Whitcomb (1992)
"... the defendant's introduction of videotaped interviews to discredit the interviewers' techniques actually backfired, lending greater support to the ..."

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