Energize

/ˈɛnəd͡ʒaɪz/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To invigorate; to make energetic..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To invigorate; to make energetic.
2. (transitive) To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

Example Sentences

Magazines of the day celebrated the new gay health consciousness in articles which linked the proliferation of gay bodybuilding with the health craze sweeping the country, though this was often complete nonsense. For did we not, all of us, know scores of friends who used drugs to energize their workouts, who smoked dope, took speed, and shot up anabolic steroids to facilitate that mad, muscular frenzy?

Whenever we energize that circuit we blow a fuse.

Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards.

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Word Forms

• energizes
• energizing
• energized
• energise

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