malfunction
verb [intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they malfunction | |
| he / she / it malfunctions | |
| past simple malfunctioned | |
| past participle malfunctioned | |
| -ing form malfunctioning |
(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. 他因降落伞失灵而丧生。 malfunctioning body cells 机能不良的身体细胞
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMalfunction is used with these nouns as the subject:- equipment
- machine