wired
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To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
โWe need to wire that hole in the fence.โ
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To string on a wire.
โwire beadsโ
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To equip with wires for use with electricity.
โDo you know how to wire a plug?โ
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To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
โI'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.โ
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(usually passive) To fix or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour) in a particular way.
โThere's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.โ
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To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
โThe detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.โ
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To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
โCoffee late at night wires me good and proper.โ
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To install eavesdropping equipment.
โWe wired the suspect's house.โ
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To snare by means of a wire or wires.
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To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
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Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
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Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
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Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
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Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
โAfter three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.โ
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Having wiry feathers.
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Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.
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Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
โI was dealt three of a kind, wired.โ
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(of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
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