electrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: electrifies
form: electrifying
form: electrified
form: electrified
Etymology: From electric + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: to electrify a cable
text: Those most rural routes will not get overhead wires. As Reeve told the seminar: "Even in my wildest dreams, I can't see a business case for electrifying the Far North Line."
ref: 2022 August 10, Philip Haigh, “Scotland switched on to electrification”, in RAIL, number 963, page 35:
synonyms: electricalize
electricize
electrize
energize
galvanize
glosses: To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.
examples: text: to electrify a limb, or the body
synonyms: electricalize
electricize
electrize
galvanize
shock
zap
glosses: To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.
examples: text: Baroness Randerson had asked if, following the publication of the Government's Decarbonising transport: setting the challenge report in March, there had been any consideration to electrify more rail lines - and if so, to prioritise routes between Cardiff and Swansea, in the East Midlands and in the Lake District. All had been planned for electrification before subsequently being cancelled.
ref: 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: Electrification key to decarbonisation”, in Rail, page 16:
glosses: To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, vehicle, railroad) for electric power.
examples: text: Her performance in the play electrified the audience.
text: If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of habeas corpus […] the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news.
ref: 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II:
text: Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.
ref: 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda:
text: His poeticized version of a news flash about the advent of AIDS (the disease that killed his mother) electrifies, as it should, like unexpected lightning.
ref: 2009 January 14, Ben Brantley, Jason Zinoman, “In Festival, Biography, Beckett and Blues”, in The New York Times:
text: The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
ref: 2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition), page 100:
synonyms: word: galvanize
word: vitalize
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill.
glosses: To make electric.
Derived terms: de-electrify
electrifiable
electrification
electrifier
re-electrify
unelectrify
Related terms: electric
electricity