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Wired

adjective

Equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service. Antonym: wireless.

Tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline. Synonyms: pumped, pumped-up, pumped up. "He was so pumped he couldn't sleep"

Tied or bound with wire.

Wire

verb

(past & past part. wired; pres. part. wiring)

Provide with electrical circuits.

Send cables, wires, or telegrams. Synonyms: cable, telegraph.

Fasten with wire. Antonym: unwire.

String on a wire.

Equip for use with electricity. Synonym: electrify.

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"Wired" Quotes from Famous Books

... to recommend me to John Deegan, I wired to myself from Philadelphia to New York, using "R. Callery's" name (without permission), I have the telegram, which was done by the House Printing Telegraph (in type on long strips, or tape, much like the present ticker tape). ...

— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith

... with the car," he said with a forced matter-of-factness, "and let you know when there's any news. I've wired Buckhorn and sent word to Casa Grande—and we ought to get ...

— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer

... results. Even the summer visitors from the States exhibited signs of excitement, yet they were skeptical of the chances of war; that is, war that would really affect us! My newspaper in Montreal wired for me to come down to do war cartoons and I left my father ...

— "Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went • Louis Keene

... said, when you wired, you wanted the extra room to work in," he objected, "and you'll remember, Mr. Blair, that you were pretty emphatic about it, too, at the time. We went to all kinds of trouble to fix ...

— Their Mariposa Legend • Charlotte Herr

... rattled on the flagged path, supplied each word with emphasis. "However, it is no good talking, and I don't exactly know why I should put my old oar in. But the fact is I feel a certain responsibility. People here have been uncommonly civil. Well, well!—I've wired to-day to ask if there is a berth left in the Venetia for Saturday. And you, I suppose"—the inquiry was somewhat peremptory—"will be going back to ...

— Marriage a la mode • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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