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"backfiring" in Spanish

QUICK TRANSLATIONS
"backfiring" in English
{noun}
retorno de llama
{noun}
detonación- petardeo- detonaciones
{transitive verb}
petardear
{intransitive verb}
producir detonaciones en el escape- petardear- pistonear- fallar- salir mal
{verb}
fracasar- redundar
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TRANSLATIONS & EXAMPLES
{noun}
backfiring
retorno de llama{m}
{noun}
backfire(also: detonation, explosion)
detonación{f}
backfire
petardeo{m}
backfire
detonaciones{f}
{transitive verb}
backfire
petardear{v.t.}
{intransitive verb}
to backfire
producir detonaciones en el escape{vb}
to backfire
petardear{vb} [coll.]
to backfire
pistonear{vb} [Col.]
to backfire(also: to break down, to choke up, to fall down, to let down, to misfire, to misfire, to misfire, to miskick, to renege, to falter)
fallar{vb}
to backfire
salir mal{vb}
{verb}
to backfire
fracasar{vb} [fig.]
This is a strategy which will backfire.
Esta estrategia va a ser un fracaso.
What is particularly frustrating for me is that the promised election awareness advertisement has spectacularly backfired.
Lo que es especialmente frustrante para mí es que el prometido anuncio sobre la conciencia de las elecciones ha fracasado espectacularmente.
(DE) Madam President, Mr Cioloş, ladies and gentlemen, it is extremely dangerous to talk about an increase in bureaucracy, because this sort of discussion often backfires.
(DE) Señora Presidenta, señor Comisario, Señorías, es muy peligroso hablar de un aumento de la burocracia, ya que este tipo de debates a menudo fracasa.
to backfire(also: to recoil, to redound)
redundar{vb}
A reduction in the use of pesticides in these countries compared with their current level of use will backfire on us consumers.
La reducción del uso actual de los plaguicidas en esos países redundaría en perjuicio de nosotros, los consumidores.

SYNONYMS
Synonyms (English) for "backfire":
backfire
backlash- blowback- boomerang- recoil
CONTEXT EXAMPLES
Context examples for "backfiring" in Spanish(!) These sentences come from external sources & may not be accurate. Therefore, we are not responsible for their content.
Madam President, this is clearly a case of a Commission manoeuvre backfiring.
Señora Presidenta, en este asunto debemos constatar que se está dando la fábula del cazador cazado.
The financial gain from visa taxes is backfiring on the EU itself.
El beneficio económico obtenido con el pago de esos visados se está volviendo en contra de la propia UE.
Socialism is thus backfiring on the people because of its poor economic management and its dogmatic cosmopolitanism.
De esta forma el socialismo se vuelve contra los pueblos por su mala gestión económica y por su cosmopolitismo dogmático.

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