malfunctionverb [ I ]
uk/ˌmælˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us/ˌmælˈfʌŋk.ʃən/formalto fail to work or operate correctly
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Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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malfunctionnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌmælˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us/ˌmælˈfʌŋk.ʃən/formala failure to work or operate correctly:
Shortly before the crash the pilot had reported a malfunction of the aircraft's navigation system.
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Faults and mistakes
- a blot on sb's character idiom
- aberration
- Achilles heel
- adrift
- black mark
- chink
- clinker
- errata
- erratum
- error
- failing
- false alarm
- false move
- irregularity
- lapse
- loophole
- misprint
- misspell
- mistake
- solecism
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