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Meanings of afterburn in English

Catalan
deflagració d'escapament
Spanish
deflagración de escape

Combustion or explosion produced by a running internal combustion engine in the exhaust system rather the combustion chamber.

deflagració d'escapament
Synonyms
Examples for "backfire"
Examples for "backfire"
1
Executing leaders is simply bad politics - history shows that they backfire.
The Irish Times
2
Investing in private companies not long before they go public can backfire.
Reuters
3
The data also indicate, however, that communicating anger in bargaining may backfire.
Pubmed
4
Another risk: if your signature move is too specific, it could backfire.
Suck it, wonder woman!: the misadventures of a hollywood geek
5
The secrecy can also backfire in other ways, according to the report.
Wired
Usage of afterburn in English
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Watch irony and authenticity incinerate themselves in the F-35's afterburn.
Wired
2
I was used to encountering remnants-theafterburn of the sixties was everywhere in that part of California.
The Girls
3
Also known as the afterburn effect.
The South African
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He blinked away the afterburn.
Map of bones
5
TAMMY closes her eyes, then shuts herself down, a ghostly afterburn lingering for a bit, a transient image of her face persisting there.
How to live safely in a science fictional universe
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"Just a little of Tennessee's finest, with a little wizard afterburn thrown in," Jackson explained.
James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
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Afterburn Rate BOOK In our age of runaway acceleration, dreams of deceleration sit side by side with counterstrategies for becoming one with the blur.
Wired
Frequent collocations
Translations for afterburn
Afterburn through the time