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malfunctioned

malfunctioned is the simple past and past participle of malfunction.

Meaning of malfunction

Verb

malfunction (third-person singular simple present malfunctions, present participle malfunctioning, simple past and past participle malfunctioned)

  1. To function improperly.
    • She told him the machine was poorly built, but they both knew that she was the one who had malfunctioned.
  2. To fail to function.

See all 4 meanings of malfunction

Questions about malfunctioned

What is malfunctioned the simple past and past participle of?
Malfunctioned is the simple past and past participle of malfunction.

Words near malfunctioned in the dictionary

  1. malfunction
  2. malfunction junction
  3. malfunction routine
  4. malfunction routines
  5. malfunctional
  6. malfunctioned
  7. malfunctioner
  8. malfunctioners
  9. malfunctioning
  10. malfunctionings
  11. malfunctions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malfunctioned (page history and authors); malfunction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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