0 present participle of telegraph
2 to communicate a message or impression to someone, or make it clear what you are going to do, often by the way you act:
One story says Mrs. Faulkner telegraphed Lincoln and he promptly overruled the order.
U. S. Senators Charles Culberson and Joseph Weldon Bailey telegraphed Secretary of War William Howard Taft a day after the shootings.
The first telegraphed messages were transmitted in 1916 through an underground copper wire.
With special operations in dangerous countries, if you telegraph what you're going to do, it might cause a lot of deaths.
For months he had telegraphed his inclination to veto the plan.
The museum's president telegraphed with his bike tours the idea that the museum was a friendly as well as an erudite place.
His eyes downcast and tone sullen, he telegraphed in every way possible that he didn't want to discuss the defeat.
Decisions can be taken in half an hour, by talks across the table, which settle more than weeks of telegraphing or telephoning.
