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wired off

wired off is the simple past and past participle of wire off.

Meaning of wire off

Verb

wire off (third-person singular simple present wires off, present participle wiring off, simple past and past participle wired off)

  1. To separate or close off by installing a wire barricade or fence, as around the perimeter.
    • It was worthless land on the north edge of the chalk country, and he got a large tract of it, which he wired off.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed
  2. (dated) To send (a message) by wire.
  3. (pottery) To separate and remove (a form) from a mass of clay using a cutting wire.

Questions about wired off

What is wired off the simple past and past participle of?
Wired off is the simple past and past participle of wire off.

Words near wired off in the dictionary

  1. wirecutters
  2. wirecutting
  3. wired
  4. wired away
  5. wired in
  6. wired off
  7. wired to the gills
  8. wiredancer
  9. wiredancers
  10. wiredness
  11. wiredraw

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