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wired

/waɪəd/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
  2. To string on a wire.
  3. To equip with wires for use with electricity.
  4. To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
  5. (usually passive) To fix or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour) in a particular way.
  6. To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
  7. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
  8. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
  9. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
  10. Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
  11. Having wiry feathers.
  12. Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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