malfunction

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I've decided there are few things worse than a laptop malfunction, which is exactly what I've been battling with for the past several days, hence the lack of blog posts.

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  1. intransitive verb To fail to function.
  2. intransitive verb To function improperly.
  3. noun Failure to function.

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  • I've decided there are few things worse than a laptop malfunction, which is exactly what I've been battling with for the past several days, hence the lack of blog posts. —  Fantasy Football Librarian
  • Obviously, something isn't working here and the result of this malfunction is a lot of dead women and children instead of just damaged ones. —  THE IRATE NATION
  • When the malfunction was claimed to have been corrected, Riley emerged the winner.
  • Poor drainage and rocky soils have caused nearly half of the private septic systems in the neighborhood to malfunction, according to city officials. —  The Times-Journal: News
  • A cargo plane chartered by FedEx crashed Thursday west of Baghdad after reporting a malfunction, the U.S. military said. —  - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

breakdown ·  disruption ·  mishap ·  damage ·  trauma ·  imbalance ·  emergency ·  illness ·  overload ·  failure ·  relay ·  replacement

Used in the same contextWord Family

malfunction:   malfunctioning ·  malfunctions
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