Circuited [adjective]

The message is short-circuited back to the surface by motor nerves, without ever having reached the thinking centers.

Finally, by screwing up the brake, the current through the dynamo is increased, and the lamp again short-circuited.

It is obvious that the armature winding is short-circuited upon itself except when the contact points are separated.

While the armature winding is thus short-circuited there will be practically no generation of current.

A stench of seared flesh and short circuited wires smote our nostrils.

Instead of direct contact of personalities through the love confession as such, it is long-circuited through some conventionality.

It is like the electrical wire that is "short circuited," it expends itself in one spasmodic combustion.

A short circuited coil will heat excessively and eventually burn out.

After dinner the Indigent Widowers circuited the tables, and attracted much attention by their neat and respectable appearance.

Their child, Timmy, was an imbecile whose short-circuited mind lay open to me.