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What does shorted mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of short
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The electric blanket under the pillow had shorted and started a fire in the pillow under his head.
I picked up the car this afternoon, and they told me the windscreen wiper motor had shorted.
At some point the electrician came to fix the circuit breaker that shorted out last night.
I picked up the phone again, but it slipped out of my fingers and into the water, where it sparked and shorted out.
If you did not do anything with the flyback, gradually the internal capacitance will become shorted and you will need to refurbish the flyback.
They can be shorted by contact with metal objects and leak or rupture and may cause personal injury.

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