BoomerangWordNet Explorer
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noun
a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
Words in this synset: backfire
noun
a mistake in calculating
noun
a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
noun
a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled
noun
a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
noun
an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex
verb
go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before