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wired

verb adjective

To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

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Word Facts

Word length
5
Starts with
W
Ends with
D
Contains
IR
Scrabble score
9
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

/waɪəd/ /waɪɹd/

Meaning

Definitions

verb

  1. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

    “We need to wire that hole in the fence.”

  2. To string on a wire.

    “wire beads”

  3. To equip with wires for use with electricity.

    “Do you know how to wire a plug?”

  4. To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.

    “I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.”

  5. (usually passive) To fix or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour) in a particular way.

    “There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.”

  6. To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.

    “The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.”

  7. To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.

    “Coffee late at night wires me good and proper.”

  8. To install eavesdropping equipment.

    “We wired the suspect's house.”

  9. To snare by means of a wire or wires.

  10. To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

adjective

  1. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.

  2. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.

  3. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.

  4. Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

    “After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.”

  5. Having wiry feathers.

  6. Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.

  7. Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.

    “I was dealt three of a kind, wired.”

  8. (of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.

In context

Example Sentences

We need to wire that hole in the fence.
wire beads
Do you know how to wire a plug?
I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.
The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.
Coffee late at night wires me good and proper.
We wired the suspect's house.
After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

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