"short out" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: shorts out [present, singular, third-person], shorting out [participle, present], shorted out [participle, past], shorted out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} short out (third-person singular simple present shorts out, present participle shorting out, simple past and past participle shorted out)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To short circuit. Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-short_out-en-verb-rbWOV81g Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for short out meaning in English (1.1kB)

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