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backfiring
n. A failure that leads to further misfortune. vb. (present participle of backfire English)
Usage examples of "backfiring".
The only problem being, of course, that whenever you ran an operation that was not aboveboard there was a certain risk of it backfiring into a worse situation than it had been before.
I don't want it backfiring at the wrong time, when some of the basic research now in progress becomes demonstrable.
Clattering and backfiring, the tractor roared down wadis and rumbled over mountains covering distances that had taken dozens of painful camel marches in his father's day.