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 participle | wiring |
| Third person singular | wires /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
- noun Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- noun A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- noun A metal conductor that carries electricity.
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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