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Grammar : Adj
Spell : wahyuh rd
Phonetic Transcription : waɪərd



Definition of wired

Origin :
  • "nervous, jittery," by 1970s; earlier (1959, perhaps early 1950s) as "using narcotic drugs, addicted to drugs;" from past participle of wire (v.).
  • adj connected
  • adj bugged
  • adj excited
  • adj equipped with wires
Example sentences :
  • Among my other activities, I wired the parlor for electric light.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Well, I gathered from the fact that you wired me to come home that you wanted my advice.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • I wired the news to the papers in Shoshone, so he must know.
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
  • In reply to the telegram, Jimmy wired that he would be at the hotel at nine o'clock.
  • Extract from : « People of Position » by Stanley Portal Hyatt
  • Soon's Mrs. Peabody wired you was goin' to ride, me and Ase started to meet you.
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • I have wired that I was sorry to have to tell them that you are not quite thirty-three.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
  • I wired to Hobart, but, having no reply, so faith I reckoned you had left.
  • Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang
  • We ought to have wired them at Sydney, and given them a hint.
  • Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang
  • There are always at least two electric wires going into a building that is wired.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • It is corded and wired in the most exasperating way, but at last I get it open.
  • Extract from : « My Contemporaries In Fiction » by David Christie Murray

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