NTUMC+ Open Multilingual Wordnet 0.9

02378950-v 'come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect'; V1;

Chinese (simplified)	事与愿违 , 发生意外 , 招致相反结果 , 发生意外 , 招致与预期相反不利结 , 招致反效果 , 招致反效果 , 招致与预期相反不利结 , 招致相反结果
English	backfire ( ⊳ ) , recoil , backlash ( ⊳ )
Italian	avere effetto contrario

Definitions

English: come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
― Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble
Japanese: 悪しき効果を伴った行為を行った創始者へ一度立ち返る
― あなたの論評は裏目に出て、多くの問題を引き起こすかもしれない

Relations

Hypernym:	happen
Semantic Field:	social_v

Verb Frames

Something ----s;

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