Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
simple past and past participle of wire
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryEquipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires. · Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices. · Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire. · Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
From wire + -ed.
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