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shorted

USSHORT-id/ˈʃoɹtɪd/SaySHAWT-idUK/ˈʃɔːtɪd/AUS/ˈʃoːtɪd/

2 meanings of shorted

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  1. 1
    verb
    Simple past and past participle of short. Use this form for something that already happened.

    The old wire shorted and cut off the power.

    The phone shorted right after it fell in the water.

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  2. 2
    adjective
    Wearing shorts, the short pants that end at or above the knee.
    Girls sat in girls' laps; girls sat on the floor, as if at a party; standing girls lined all the walls; athletic girls sat on the hall's Tudor rafters, swinging their shorted legs.
    2010, Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution: A ComedyHere, shorted means wearing shorts, so their legs were bare.
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shorted is a form of short

short, verb: To make electricity flow the wrong way in a wire or machine, or to have this fault. Full entry

Forms
shortshorts he/she/itshorting -ing formshorted past tense, past participle
Spelling
short → shorted: add -ed
Sound
The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.

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