misfire

nouns

an explosion that fails to occur
dud, misfire
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
misfire, miss

verbs

fail to fire or detonate
"The guns misfired"
misfire
is a type of (narrower)
stop operating or functioning
"The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad