ELECTRIFY (electrified)

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Irregular inflected form: electrified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrify mean? 

• ELECTRIFY (verb)
  The verb ELECTRIFY has 3 senses:

1. excite suddenly and intensely

2. charge (a conductor) with electricity

3. equip for use with electricity

  Familiarity information: ELECTRIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they electrify    ... he / she / it electrifies   
Past simple: electrified   
Past participle: electrified   
-ing form: electrifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excite suddenly and intensely

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

The news electrified us

Hypernyms (to "electrify" is one way to...):

agitate; charge; charge up; commove; excite; rouse; turn on (cause to be agitated, excited, or roused)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The good news will electrify her

Derivation:

electricity (keen and shared excitement)

electrification (the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Charge (a conductor) with electricity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "electrify" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

electricity (a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons)

electricity (energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor)

electrification (the act of providing electricity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Equip for use with electricity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

electrify; wire

Context example:

electrify an appliance

Hypernyms (to "electrify" is one way to...):

accommodate; adapt (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

electricity (a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons)

electricity (energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor)

electrification (the act of providing electricity)

 Context examples 

The magnetic field causes aurorae, which are ribbons of glowing, hot electrified gas, in regions circling the north and south poles of the moon.

(Hubble Observations Suggest Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon, NASA)

These giant bubbles of plasma, or electrified gas, pinch off from the end of a planet's magnetotail - the part of its magnetic field blown back by the Sun like a windsock.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)

There happened to be a bath-tub for the servants in the laundry building, and he electrified Joe by taking a cold bath.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mrs. Chillip, he proceeded, in the calmest and slowest manner, quite electrified me, by pointing out that Mr. Murdstone sets up an image of himself, and calls it the Divine Nature.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Having no net electric charge; not electrified.

(Neutral Charge, NCI Thesaurus)

Uses a thin, low-voltage electrified wire loop to cut out a thin layer of abnormal tissue; generally used to remove abnormal cells on the surface of the cervix.

(Loop Electrosurgical Excision, NCI Thesaurus)

She was first transfixed with surprise, and then electrified with delight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This spirited burst from Beth electrified the club, and Jo left her seat to shake hands approvingly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was quite easy on that head, and consequently full of strength and courage, till for a moment electrified by Mrs Croft's suddenly saying,—It was you, and not your sister, I find, that my brother had the pleasure of being acquainted with, when he was in this country.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Thanks to the work in Kenya of Hussein Isack, who electrified me as an 11-year-old when I heard him speak in Cape Town, we’ve long known that people can increase their rate of finding bees’ nests by collaborating with honeyguides, sometimes following them for over a kilometre.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)