Social life

Synonyms for backfire

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · Reason line included

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineSocial life

come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

backlash

Same sentence, swapped: Your comments may backlash and cause you a lot of trouble.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for backfire as it is used in the sentence above.

befall
coincide
flicker

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Closest first: other social life words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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