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rewired

rewired is the simple past and past participle of rewire.

Meaning of rewire

Verb

rewire (third-person singular simple present rewires, present participle rewiring, simple past and past participle rewired)

  1. To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation.
    • I had to rewire the circuit where the old wires had shorted out.
  2. To change the functionality of something by altering the parameters or logic.
    • When our companies merged, I rewired our payment processing system to handle their invoices as well.

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Questions about rewired

What is rewired the simple past and past participle of?
Rewired is the simple past and past participle of rewire.

Words near rewired in the dictionary

  1. rewipes
  2. rewiping
  3. rewirable
  4. rewire
  5. rewireable
  6. rewired
  7. rewirer
  8. rewirers
  9. rewires
  10. rewiring
  11. rewirings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewired (page history and authors); rewire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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