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The Latin root mal means bad or evil. Doctors make use of the root mal to deal with all kinds of problems. An example is the word malfunction.
The Latin root for "bad" is "malus," which means bad or evil. This root appears in various English words such as "malicious," "malfunction," and "malnutrition." It is often used to denote something that is harmful or undesirable.
It is actually a prefix. The prefix that means bad is mal-.
The root word "mal" typically denotes something negative or bad. This prefix is commonly used in words to indicate wrongdoing or evil, such as "malfunction" or "malicious."
There was a technical malfunction earlier.The train malfunction caused a pile-up.
The spelling "malfunction" is correct.
malfunction is something that does not work properly.
As a verb: The machine will malfunction without enough oil.As a noun: This malfunction is due to lack of oil.
Low fluid, shifter malfunction, electrical malfunction, internal mechanical malfunction.
A malfunction.
A malfunction indicator light comes on because a detector elsewhere in the item has noticed a malfunction in whatever it is monitoring.
Malfunction indicator lamp control circuit malfunction