Definition of "short-circuited" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of short-circuit. (verb)

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• "They are one, and the limited idea of their being separate has short-circuited the necessary movements."
• "I learn that Barack Obama was very worried about the budget deficit and the â¨rising national debt very early--so much so that he short-circuited his own â¨bureaucratic processes and ordered reports from deficit hawk and OMB â¨director Peter Orszag routed to him around the NEC process."
• "Her fear that she had failed her childhood friend Lauren had short-circuited powerful psychological forces that could have strengthened her bond with her husband, made her family more cohesive, and given her children the example of expressing their feelings rather than stifling them."