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. (present participle of short-circuit English)
Usage examples of "short-circuiting".
Yet the young inventor was sure the bar of copper, which had done the mischief of short-circuiting the motor, had been put in place deliberately.
Then came the time when one of the spies hid on board, and dropped the copper bar on the motor, short-circuiting it.
Their attraction for each other was electric, and their knack for short-circuiting that same attraction was just amazing.
In layman’s terms, her brain is short-circuiting, and I cannot find the fault in the wiring.
That way you won’t risk a bared, spliced length making contact or short-circuiting against an adjoining bare wire.
He talked too fast, and his hands flung off one quick gesture after another, like a short-circuiting machine casting off sparks.
Disconnected thoughts surged like bursts of electric current through his short-circuiting brain.