wiring off
wiring off is the present participle and gerund 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)
- 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
- To send (a message) by wire.
- To separate and remove (a form) from a mass of clay using a cutting wire.
Questions about wiring off
- What is wiring off the present participle and gerund of?
- Wiring off is the present participle and gerund of wire off.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wiring off (page history and authors); wire off (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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