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wires off

wires off is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 wires off

What is wires off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wires off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wire off.

Words near wires off in the dictionary

  1. wirerooms
  2. wirers
  3. wires
  4. wires away
  5. wires in
  6. wires off
  7. wirescape
  8. wirescapes
  9. wiresmith
  10. wiresmiths
  11. wiresome

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