v. 1 fail, abort, miscarry, go wrong, fizzle (out), fall through, Colloq flop, come a cropper, Brit go phut, US go pfft or phft The plan to take over the conglomerate misfired when the shares soared in price
n. 2 miscarriage, failure, fizzle, dud, Colloq abort, flop After two misfires, we gave up trying to buy a time-share in the Algarve