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Past tense of wire

regular verb

The past tense of wire is wired. The past participle is also wired.

Forms of wire

Base form (V1)wire /waɪə(ɹ)/
Past tense (V2)wired /waɪəd/
Past participle (V3)wired /waɪəd/
Present participlewiring
Third person singularwires /waɪəz/

Wired in a sentence

  • I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 222
  • Assuming that all of the conference rooms are wired into the LAN, the sales representative would have to carry a cable to connect into any conference room that they visit, find the appropriate wall jack, and connect into the network.2004, David Wall, Managing and Securing a Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network, →ISBN, page 2
  • He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.From the entry cap
  • After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.From the entry wired
  • When her jaw was wired shut, she had acted out what she needed.From the entry act out

Meaning of wire

  1. noun Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
  2. noun A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
  3. noun A metal conductor that carries electricity.

Full definition of wire

Questions about the past tense of wire

What is the past tense of wire?
The past tense of wire is wired.
What is the past participle of wire?
The past participle of wire is wired.
Is wire a regular or irregular verb?
Wire is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wire (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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