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were malfunctioning
verb
To function improperly
synonyms
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On physical examination, I heard a loud heart murmur, indicating that his cardiac valves were malfunctioning.
As if a mirror were malfunctioning, each chair separating from a buckle-bright double.
There is a huge slowdown, as if a computer simulation were malfunctioning.
The breakdown and mobilization of their fat stores was suppressed, and a closer look showed that their mitochondria were malfunctioning.
I attended and can assure you that, contrary to the glamorously edited videos in the show, they were malfunctioning, formless, benumbing ordeals.
The air-speed indicators, called pitot tubes, became part of the crash inquiry after the A330-200 sent automated messages that air-speed sensors were malfunctioning.
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They're malfunctioning at the moment.
In the meantime, the relievers are malfunctioning.
At first, he thought the computer was malfunctioning.
— the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is malfunctioning.
They travelled through time, and the machine was malfunctioning.
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