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shorting out

shorting out is the present participle and gerund 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 shorting out

What is shorting out the present participle and gerund of?
Shorting out is the present participle and gerund of short out.

Words near shorting out in the dictionary

  1. shortie
  2. shorties
  3. shortify
  4. shorting
  5. shorting down
  6. shorting out
  7. shortings
  8. shortish
  9. shortite
  10. Shortland
  11. Shortland Island

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shorting 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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