Meaning

(transitive) To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.
2. (transitive) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.
3. (transitive) To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, vehicle, railroad) for electric power.
4. (transitive) To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill.
5. (intransitive) To make electric.

Example Sentences

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."

to electrify a limb, or the body

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.

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.

Word Forms

• electrifies
• electrifying
• electrified

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Use electrify when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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