energize

Verb

energize (third-person singular simple present energizes, present participle energizing, simple past and past participle energized)

1. (transitive) To invigorate; to make energetic.
   • 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...1986, Paul Reed, “Serenity”, in Eric E. Rofes, editor, Gay Life: Leisure, Love, and Living for the Contemporary Gay Male, page 9
2. (transitive) To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something).
   • Whenever we energize that circuit we blow a fuse.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
   • Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards.1881, John Campbell Shairp, Aspects of Poetry