backfire

• ⇰ प्रतिज्वलन
• ⇰ व्यर्थ
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• ⇰ प्रतिविस्फोटन होना

• ⇰ A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.
• ⇰ A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also called a knock> or ping>.

• ⇰ To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.
• ⇰ Of a Bunsen or similar air-fed burner, to light so that the flame proceeds from the internal gas jet instead of from the external jet of mixed gas and air.