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shorted out

shorted out is the simple past and past participle of short out.

Meaning of short out

Verb

short out (third-person singular simple present shorts out, present participle shorting out, simple past and past participle shorted out)

  1. (ambitransitive) To short circuit.

Questions about shorted out

What is shorted out the simple past and past participle of?
Shorted out is the simple past and past participle of short out.

Words near shorted out in the dictionary

  1. shortcutters
  2. shortcutting
  3. shorte
  4. shorted
  5. shorted down
  6. shorted out
  7. Shortell
  8. Shortells
  9. shorten
  10. shorten down
  11. shorten up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shorted out (page history and authors); short out (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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