What is "misfiring"

Usage examples of "misfiring".

To make matters worse, one of my sparking−plugs was in trouble again and there was intermittent misfiring in the engine.

Possibly, had the engine been at its best, another thousand feet might have been within our capacity, but it was still misfiring, and two out of the ten cylinders appeared to be out of action.

A pride that was far from idle, as a misfiring blaster in the middle of a firefight would mean buying the farm when survival was much the preferred option.

That puzzlement produced an odd chastened pause, and a greater darkness, and then an explosion of leaping light, the meteorite of a Digger's tracer misfiring in a soundless streak over their heads.

The hum of the transport's engines had choked suddenly, dissolving into the sharp crackle characteristic of a misfiring transkilmer.

Rualf had just suffered the tearing apart of H'ffl's body and the final spasmodic misfirings of dying sensors.