electrify

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

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

3. (transitive) To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, railroad) for electric power.
4. (transitive) To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill.

   Her performance in the play electrified the audience.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II Chapter I

     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.

   • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

     Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.

   • 2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition)‎, page 100:

     The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.

5. (intransitive) To become electric.

• electric
• electricity
• electrification

• electrify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• electrify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• electrify at OneLook Dictionary Search