short-circuit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb hamper the progress of; impede
    • short-circuit warm feelings
  2. verb create a short circuit in
    short.
  3. verb avoid something unpleasant or laborious
    get around; go around; bypass.
    • You cannot bypass these rules!

WordNet

Short"-cir`cuit transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Short-circuited; present participle & verbal noun Short-circuiting
Definitions
  1. (Elec.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.

Webster 1913