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    wired
    [ˈwī(ə)rd]
    adjective
    wired (adjective)
    1. making use of computers to transfer or receive information, especially by means of the internet:
      "the economic arguments for getting your business wired"
      • (of a device or network) using wires or cables rather than wireless technology to transmit signals.
    2. informal
      in a nervous, tense, or edgy state:
      "not much sleep lately—I'm a little wired"
      • under the influence of drugs or alcohol:
        "wired on acid, Hendrix ran through his UK hits"
    wire
    [ˈwī(ə)r]
    verb
    wired (past tense) · wired (past participle)
    1. install electric circuits or wires in:
      "wiring a plug" · "they wired the place themselves"
      • connect (someone or something) to a piece of electronic equipment:
        "a microphone wired to a loudspeaker"
    2. provide, fasten, or reinforce with wires:
      "they wired his jaw"
    3. informal
      send a telegram or cablegram to:
      "she wired her friend for advice"
      • send (money) to (someone) by means of a telegram or cablegram:
        "he was expecting a friend in Australia to wire him $1,500"
    4. snare (an animal) with wire.
    5. croquet
      obstruct (a ball, shot, or player) by a wicket.
    Origin
    Old English wīr; of Germanic origin, probably from the base of Latin viere ‘plait, weave’.
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    adjective
    1. making use of computers to transfer or receive information, especially by means of the internet:
      drunk
      drunken
      inebriated
      intoxicated
      befuddled
      incapable
      tipsy
      under the influence
      maudlin
      blind drunk
      (as) drunk as a skunk
      sottish
      tippling
      toping
      tight
      merry
      the worse for wear
      woozy
      pie-eyed
      under the table
      plastered
      smashed
      wrecked
      sloshed
      well oiled
      sozzled
      soused
      blotto
      blitzed
      canned
      stewed
      pickled
      soaked
      bombed
      hammered
      blasted
      out of one's skull
      in one's cups
      reeling
      cock-eyed
      zonked
      guttered
      fuddled
      stinko
      ratted
      legless
      steaming
      bevvied
      paralytic
      half cut
      out of it
      bladdered
      squiffy
      tiddly
      cut
      steamed
      mullered
      slaughtered
      lashed
      pissed
      full
      shickered
      shot
      turnt
      inked
      stoned
      half seas over
      pixilated
      sotted
      besotted
      foxed
      screwed
      crapulent
      crapulous
      inebriate
      bibulous
      the worse for drink
      dead drunk
      rolling drunk
      roaring drunk
      (as) drunk as a lord
      gin-soaked
      two/three sheets to the wind
      tanked (up)
      off one's face
      out of/off one's head
      Brahms and Liszt
      having had a skinful
      trolleyed
      well away
      out of one's box
      having had one over the eight
      as pissed as a newt/fart
      rat-arsed
      arseholed
      fou
      grogged up
      as full as a goog
      munted
      lekker
      tired and emotional
      lit up
      as tight as a tick
      ebrious
      ebriose
      ebriate
      Opposite:
      sober
      • in a nervous, tense, or edgy state:
        nervous
        anxious
        tense
        on edge
        edgy
        strained
        stressed
        agitated
        apprehensive
        uneasy
        restless
        keyed up
        overwrought
        wrought up
        jumpy
        on tenterhooks
        fidgety
        fearful
        frightened
        scared
        like a cat on a hot tin roof
        quaking
        trembling
        shaking
        shaky
        on pins and needles
        fevered
        febrile
        excitable
        neurotic
        highly strung
        uptight
        het up
        in a twitter
        stressy
        windy
        all of a doodah
        spooky
        squirrelly
        overstrung
        in a state of nerves
        in a state of agitation
        worked up
        strung out
        with one's stomach in knots
        with one's heart in one's mouth
        shaking in one's shoes
        in a cold sweat
        in a state
        in a stew
        all of a dither
        in a sweat
        in a flap
        in a tizz/tizzy
        all of a lather
        strung up
        having kittens
        like a cat on hot bricks
        in a twit
        toey
        shitting bricks
        bricking oneself
        Opposite:
        calm
        relaxed
        laid-back
        easygoing
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