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malfunctioning

malfunctioning is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

malfunctioning (plural malfunctionings)

  1. A malfunction.
    • Both strategies reflect a modern clinical emphasis on the malfunctionings of the psychological and biological processes of the body[…]2011, Raymond Van Dam, Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul, page 84

Forms of malfunctioning

pluralmalfunctionings

Questions about malfunctioning

What does malfunctioning mean?
Malfunctioning means a malfunction.
What is malfunctioning the present participle and gerund of?
Malfunctioning is the present participle and gerund of malfunction.
What part of speech is malfunctioning?
Malfunctioning is a noun.
What is the plural of malfunctioning?
The plural of malfunctioning is malfunctionings.

Words near malfunctioning in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malfunctioning (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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