🔌 With cables ⚡ Very energetic 🎤 With hidden devices 🪢 Tied with wire

wired

7.8

Having hidden devices to listen to conversations

adjective
/waɪrd/

: pinchado

There was a real fear that Megan would attend the Sandringham summit wired up with recording devices on her.

And then his entire house was wired for audio visual blackmail.

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Examples

So I sit down with this guy in this pub, and little do I know he's wired under his clothes.

Danny Jones
And then his entire house was wired for audio visual blackmail.

Shawn Ryan Show
While discussing confidential matters, I had no idea that he was wired with hidden microphones.
The investigators realized that the suspect had been wired to record all their conversations.
During the operation, they ensured that every room was wired for surveillance purposes.

Synonyms

bugged

vswired

7.2

A room, phone, or object that has hidden devices to listen to people talking

expresses the same idea but stresses being fitted with hidden surveillance equipment

Antonyms

unmonitored

2 4.6

No one watches or checks it

How Monitored

wired

7.8

unmonitored

2 4.6

Surface Forms

wired positive

Morphology

wired = wire (transparent) = wire + ed

Built from the verb 'wire' (to install wires or listening devices) plus '-ed'; the surveillance sense is a direct application of installing wires.

Etymology

Wired comes from wire, because secret microphones and other listening devices were often connected with thin metal wires, so a room or phone that is wired has hidden equipment set up to listen.