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. 机器等 to fail to work correctly 运转失常；失灵；出现故障 He was killed when his parachute malfunctioned. 他的降落伞失灵时被杀。 malfunctioning body cells 身体细胞故障
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMalfunction is used with these nouns as the subject:- equipment
- machine