electrify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
English -fy
English electrify
From electric + -fy.
Inflected forms:
form: electrifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: electrifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: electrified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: electrified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to electrify a cable
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."
gloss: To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to electrify a limb, or the body
gloss: To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, vehicle, railroad) for electric power.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And I want to get different kinds of sound. I want to electrify myself a bit. I got a phase shifter for my guitar, and I've been playing with a drum machine.
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.
gloss: To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her performance in the play electrified the audience.
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.
Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.
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.
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.
gloss: To make electric.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: electric
electricity
Derived words: de-electrify
electrifiable
electrification
electrifier
re-electrify
unelectrify
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: كَهْرَبَ
roman: kahraba
lang: Catalan
word: electrificar
lang: French
word: électrifier
lang: French
word: électriser
lang: Galician
word: electrificar
lang: German
word: elektrifizieren
lang: Greek
word: ηλεκτρίζω
roman: ilektrízo
lang: Icelandic
word: rafvæða
lang: Ido
word: elektrizar
lang: Italian
word: elettrificare
lang: Māori
word: whakahiko
lang: Portuguese
word: eletrificar
lang: Russian
word: электрифици́ровать
roman: elektrificírovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: electrificar
lang: Swedish
word: elektrifiera
lang: Swedish
word: elektrificera
lang: Swedish
word: ladda
lang: Welsh
word: trydanu