electrify

UK /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfaɪ/ US /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfaɪ/
verb 5

Definitions

verb

1

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."

2

To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.

to electrify a limb, or the body

3

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.

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.

4

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.

5

To make electric.

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