malfunction

Speech parts

1. malfunction - Noun

2. malfunction - Verb

Meaning

a failure to function normally

fail to function or function improperly

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

misfunction gremlin problem disease break failure error crisis disorder crash fail trouble failing fault breakdown
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Antonyms

function acme work control form run
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Hypernyms

break failure die fail break down go

Hyponyms

jam stall blowout

Phrases with the word

kidney malfunction experience an intermittent malfunction experience an unexpected malfunction circuit malfunction facial nerve malfunction canoe malfunction

Examples

Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse. Barbara Tuchman

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. Charles Stross

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. John Perry Barlow

A malfunction of this type can be cured only by changing the nature of the universe, which is, of course, impractical. Robert Sheckley

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. Arthur Bloch

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog. Ridley Pearson

Close letter words and terms

malfortune malfouf salad Malfoycest malfunction junction malfunction routine malfunctional