malfunction
verb/ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃn/
/ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃn/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they malfunction | /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃn/ /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃn/ |
| he / she / it malfunctions | /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃnz/ /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃnz/ |
| past simple malfunctioned | /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃnd/ /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃnd/ |
| past participle malfunctioned | /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃnd/ /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃnd/ |
| -ing form malfunctioning | /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃənɪŋ/ /ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃənɪŋ/ |
- (of a machine, etc.) to fail to work correctly
- He was killed when his parachute malfunctioned.
- malfunctioning body cells
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMalfunction is used with these nouns as the subject:- equipment
- machine
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