electrify

Verb

electrify (third-person singular simple present electrifies, present participle electrifying, simple past and past participle electrified)

1. (transitive) To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.
   • 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."2022 August 10, Philip Haigh, “Scotland switched on to electrification”, in RAIL, number 963, page 35

   Synonyms:

   electricalize, electricize, electrize, energize, galvanize

2. (transitive) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.
   • to electrify a limb, or the body

   Synonyms:

   electricalize, electricize, electrize, galvanize, shock, zap

3. (transitive) To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, vehicle, railroad) for electric power.
   • 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.1986, Bernard Brannner, quoting Blackberri, “Blackberri: Singing for Our Lives”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 180
   • 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...2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: Electrification key to decarbonisation”, in Rail, page 16
4. (transitive) To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill.
   • 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.1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II

   Synonyms:

   galvanize, vitalize, animate, awaken, enflame, enkindle, enthrill, exagitate, excite, exhilarate

5. (intransitive) To make electric.