The Collaborative International Dictionary
Short-circuit \Short"-cir`cuit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Short-circuited; p. pr. & vb. n. Short-circuiting.] (Elec.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastshort-circuit)
Usage examples of "short-circuited".
With the security shield having been short-circuited, he couldn’t be sure.
The Chinese finally wised up to his pattern and short-circuited it, but that didn't mean Achilles didn't have his next move planned.
I was thinking that even though he was short-circuited by the Chinese arresting him, it made no sense for him not to make contact with his network.
He found it was only one of the unimportant wires which had short-circuited, and it was soon adjusted.
Why, he'd have had it short-circuited in no time if I hadn't stopped him.
We did that all right, and she was running as smooth as a sewing-machine, when, all of a sudden, she short-circuited, and the storage battery cut in automatically.