n.
Function: verb
Inflected Form: wired ; wir · ing
Date: 15th century
transitive verb
1 : to provide with wire : use wire on for a specific purpose
2 : to send or send word to by telegraph
3 : to connect by or as if by a wire
4 : to predispose, determine, or establish genetically or innately <controversy over the extent to which human violence is wired biologically>
intransitive verb : to send a telegraphic message
– wir · er \ ' w ī (- ə )r- ə r \ noun