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shorts out

shorts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 shorts out

What is shorts out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shorts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of short out.

Words near shorts out in the dictionary

  1. shortribs
  2. Shortridge
  3. Shortridges
  4. shorts
  5. shorts down
  6. shorts out
  7. shortsea
  8. shortseller
  9. shortsellers
  10. shortsheet
  11. shortsheeted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shorts 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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