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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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If you did not do anything with the flyback, gradually the internal capacitance will become shorted and you will need to refurbish the flyback.
If it is a battery that is shorted, the battery will be discharged very quickly and will heat up due to the high current flow.
I picked up the car this afternoon, and they told me the windscreen wiper motor had shorted.
The generator was smoking, and the room reeked with the stench of shorted wires.
They can be shorted by contact with metal objects and leak or rupture and may cause personal injury.
On his way to the lodge, Mike noticed the back-up generator had shorted out.

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