Antonyms for WIRE
waɪərwire

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1. wirenoun

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   thread, steel wire, conducting wire, barbed wire, telegram, telegraph, cable, electrify

2. wirenoun

   Synonyms:
   score string

3. wirenoun

   To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

   We need to wire that hole in the fence.

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   steel wire, telegram, telegraph, conducting wire, cable, barbed wire, thread, electrify

4. wirenoun

   To string on a wire.

   wire beads

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   steel wire, conducting wire, thread, cable, barbed wire, telegraph, telegram, electrify

5. wirenoun

   To equip with wires for use with electricity.

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   steel wire, barbed wire, telegram, cable, conducting wire, thread, telegraph, electrify

6. wirenoun

   To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.

   I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   telegraph, conducting wire, telegram, thread, cable, steel wire, barbed wire, electrify

7. wirenoun

   To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.

   Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   telegraph, thread, cable, conducting wire, steel wire, telegram, barbed wire, electrify

8. wirenoun

   To make someone tense or psyched-up.

   I'm never going to sleep – I'm completely wired from all that coffee.

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   telegram, telegraph, thread, barbed wire, cable, conducting wire, steel wire, electrify

9. wirenoun

   To install eavesdropping equipment.

   We wired the suspect's house.

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   steel wire, telegram, barbed wire, conducting wire, thread, cable, telegraph, electrify

10. wirenoun

    A deadline or critical endpoint.

    This election is going to go right to the wire

    Synonyms:
    telegram, cable, telegraph, steel wire, barbed wire, conducting wire, thread

11. wirenoun

    A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.

    Synonyms:
    conducting wire, steel wire, thread, barbed wire, telegram, cable, telegraph

Matched Categories

1. • Adapt
   • Equip
   • Fasten
   • Finishing Line
   • Ligament
   • String
   • Telecommunicate
   • Telegraphy

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wirenoun

   ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   telegram, conducting wire

2. wire, conducting wirenoun

   a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   wire, telegram, conducting wire

3. wirenoun

   the finishing line on a racetrack

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   telegram, conducting wire

4. telegram, wireverb

   a message transmitted by telegraph

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   wire, telegram, conducting wire

5. wireverb

   provide with electrical circuits

   "wire the addition to the house"

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   cable, telegraph, electrify

6. cable, telegraph, wireverb

   send cables, wires, or telegrams

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   cable, wire, telegraph, electrify

7. wireverb

   fasten with wire

   "The columns were wired to the beams for support"

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   cable, telegraph, electrify

8. wireverb

   string on a wire

   "wire beads"

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   cable, telegraph, electrify

9. electrify, wireverb

   equip for use with electricity

   "electrify an appliance"

   Antonyms:
   unwire

   Synonyms:
   cable, wire, telegraph, electrify

How to use WIRE in a sentence?

1. Donald Trump:

   You saw that barbed wire going up. That barbed wire -- yes sir, we have barbed wire going up. Because you know what ? We're not letting these people invade our country.

2. Donald Trump:

   Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory, is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president?

3. Jeff Shesol:

   This isn't just light entertainment. It's a high-wire act for the president, and more so in the last decade or so than it used to be. We live in a different era.

4. Ron Hosko:

   This in an incredibly high stakes, high-wire act, timing is of the essence, but being right is absolutely critical. Comey must be the one to make the case that the law has been broken and a prosecution is recommended.

5. Kenneth Williams:

   When I came through those doors, I was broken. … This was, I would say, around the … third season of ‘ The Wire, ’ i was on drugs. … I was in jeopardy of destroying everything I had worked so hard for, and I came in those doors, and I met a man who had never even heard of ‘ The Wire, ’ much less watched The Wire.

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