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backfire

noun

• blowback
• boomerang
• blowup
• detonation
• explosion
• fire
• miscalculation
• misestimation
• misreckoning

verb

• backlash
• recoil
• burn
• burn down
• come about
• fall out
• fire
• go on
• hap
• happen
• make noise
• noise
• occur
• pass
• pass off
• resound
• take place

sounds kind of like

• bagpiper
• base pair
• bassia scoparia
• beekeeper
• biosphere
• bishopry
• bock beer
• book fair
• bookfair
• bookkeeper
• boxberry
• buck fever
• bugbear
• bus fare
• busbar
• buspar

rhymes with

• biedermeier
• devonshire
• esquire
• haywire
• hellfire
• lancashire
• untermeyer