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Usage examples of shorted.

General Horrey ignored it while he shorted the fuse socket with a coin.

Brief jazer pulses shorted out their interstellar engines, targeting with such precision that they left the ships only enough maneuvering power for rough, but survivable, landings.

The generator could have shorted out the electronegative halogen microbeads in their pores.

The signal was very faint, as if most of the electronegative micro-beads used to track the orphans had been removed, or shorted out.

The masts and headquarters building had been properly grounded and so escaped any real damage, but the exterior-exposed power grids had shorted out and had been cut loose by Seventeen to protect itself.

Halfway there the gunner froze up as his relays shorted, so they put the wheels under his heels, loaded the bags on to his legs and he made a damn fine handcar the rest of the way.

Jenny Psycho gestured, the power units that maintained the monofilament edge suddenly shorted out, and the swords were suddenly just swords again.

Releasing high-energy particles into the regions near the many thousands of communications satellites would destroy them by charging them up until the potentials shorted out components.

Sparks were popping along the sheet of cam foil as the moisture-laden wind shorted out its micro-sensors.

The common logic regarding the Nixon assault was that U S T T 0 D U S T 171 Wyan Nixon had shorted his boss, Deene Combs, on a small-time drug deal and had been made an example by said boss, but no one was talking, including Nixon.

We — we shorted out the biomonitoring equipment and took Laika after making certain that Soviet ground control would have no indication of any anomaly.

The one-eyes, not detecting anyone inside, had closed the doors and shorted the switches to keep everyone out.

Since the accident, he had become known as Wombat the Marauder to his victims, mostly inconsiderate dorks who had broken Caf rules only to find this man gripping them in an old Bosnian or Tunisian martial arts hold that shorted out the major meridians of their nervous system, and shouting at them in a percussive accent that crackled like fat ground beef on a red-hot steam griddle.

At the beginning of each day the properly dated OD card is inserted in a slot in the steel door and the walls hum up: Lights flash on in the dorm at six-thirty: the Acutes up out of bed quick as the black boys can prod them out, get them to work buffing the floor, emptying ash trays, polishing the scratch marks off the wall where one old fellow shorted out a day ago, went down in an awful twist of smoke and smell of burned rubber.

Xris couldn't believe he'd heard correctly, thought his auditory system might have shorted out.