backfire meaning in Marathi
बॅकफायर
/ˈbækfaɪə(ɹ)/
backfire in Marathi: बॅकफायर, बॅकफायर करण्यासाठी. In English, backfire means a premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
Marathi words for backfire
- बॅकफायर, बॅकफायर करण्यासाठी
English meaning of backfire
- noun A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
- noun An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.
- noun An explosion in other equipment.
- verb Of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc., to fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
backfire in a sentence
- His attempt to make money by importing luxury cars backfired horribly when fuel prices tripled.
- Her plan backfired on her.
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Questions about backfire in Marathi
- What is the meaning of backfire in Marathi?
- Backfire in Marathi is बॅकफायर, बॅकफायर करण्यासाठी.
- backfire चा मराठी अर्थ काय आहे?
- Backfire: बॅकफायर, बॅकफायर करण्यासाठी.
- What does backfire mean in English?
- Backfire means a premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
Source and license
Marathi words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “backfire”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: backfire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Marathi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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