Definition of "malfunctioned" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction. (verb)

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• "How do they know the machine 'malfunctioned' - isnt a slot machine supposed to be random?"
• "Those servers (which were lodged in the basement of a bank in Chattanooga, Tennessee) mysteriously "malfunctioned" during a critical period in the deep night of the election when a 200,000-vote exit poll margin for John Kerry somehow morphed into a victory for Bush/Rove."
• "Call me foolish - but if I was driving a vehicle that "malfunctioned" and "hit a curb", I might pause for a moment to inspect my vehicle to see what happened."