"electrify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfaɪ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-electrify.wav [Southern-England] Forms: electrifies [present, singular, third-person], electrifying [participle, present], electrified [participle, past], electrified [past]
Etymology: From electric + -fy. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|electric|fy}} electric + -fy Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-electrify-en-verb-ni0n6m16
  2. (transitive) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to. Tags: transitive Translations (to cause electricity to pass through): electrificar (Catalan), électrifier (French), électriser (French), electrificar (Galician), elektrifizieren (German), ηλεκτρίζω (ilektrízo) (Greek), elektrizar (Ido), elettrificare (Italian), whakahiko (Maori), eletrificar (Portuguese), eletrizar (Portuguese), электризова́ть (elektrizovátʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), наэлектризова́ть (naelektrizovátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), electrificar (Spanish), elektrifiera (Swedish), elektrificera (Swedish), strömsätta (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-electrify-en-verb-XJnXhJvN Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -fy Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -fy: 9 35 14 34 8 Disambiguation of 'to cause electricity to pass through': 4 93 2 1 0
  3. (transitive) To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, vehicle, railroad) for electric power. Tags: transitive Translations (to adapt for electric power): كَهْرَبَ (kahraba) (Arabic), электрыфікава́ць (eljektryfikavácʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Belarusian), electrificar (Catalan), 電氣化 (Chinese Mandarin), 电气化 (diànqìhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), elektrizi (Esperanto), électrifier (French), electrificar (Galician), elektrifizieren (German), elettrificare (Italian), электрлендіру (élektrlendıru) (Kazakh), elektryfikować [imperfective] (Polish), zelektryfikować [perfective] (Polish), eletrificar (Portuguese), электрифици́ровать (elektrificírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), electrificar (Spanish), elektrifiera (Swedish), elektrificera (Swedish), електрифікува́ти (elektryfikuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-electrify-en-verb-yUhHuxfI Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -fy Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -fy: 9 35 14 34 8 Disambiguation of 'to adapt for electric power': 4 10 74 2 10
  4. (transitive) To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill. Tags: transitive Translations (to excite suddenly and violently): électriser (French), exciter (French), elektrisieren (German), ηλεκτρίζω (ilektrízo) (Greek), eletrizar (Portuguese), electrizar (Spanish), elektrisera (Swedish), entusiasmera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-electrify-en-verb-HrNbsCP5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -fy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 30 18 38 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 10 27 16 43 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -fy: 9 35 14 34 8 Disambiguation of 'to excite suddenly and violently': 8 17 5 69 0
  5. (intransitive) To make electric. Tags: intransitive Translations (to become electric): eletrizar (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-electrify-en-verb-yWYm5QCa Disambiguation of 'to become electric': 8 28 17 4 42
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: de-electrify, electrification, re-electrify Related terms: electric, electricity Translations (to communicate electricity to): كَهْرَبَ (kahraba) (Arabic), electrificar (Catalan), électrifier (French), électriser (French), electrificar (Galician), elektrifizieren (German), ηλεκτρίζω (ilektrízo) (Greek), rafvæða (Icelandic), elektrizar (Ido), elettrificare (Italian), whakahiko (Maori), eletrificar (Portuguese), электрифици́ровать (elektrificírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), electrificar (Spanish), elektrifiera (Swedish), elektrificera (Swedish), ladda (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'to communicate electricity to': 36 44 7 10 3

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II",
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          "ref": "2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition), page 100",
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "eletrificar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "36 44 7 10 3",
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "elektrificírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "электрифици́ровать"
    },
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      "_dis1": "36 44 7 10 3",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
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      "_dis1": "36 44 7 10 3",
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "elektrifiera"
    },
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      "_dis1": "36 44 7 10 3",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "elektrificera"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "36 44 7 10 3",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "ladda"
    }
  ],
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}
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    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
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      "word": "de-electrify"
    },
    {
      "word": "electrification"
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    {
      "word": "re-electrify"
    }
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      "form": "electrified",
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          "text": "to electrify a cable",
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      ],
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        "To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity."
      ],
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          "electricity"
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        "(transitive) To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity."
      ],
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    {
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "to electrify a limb, or the body",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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    },
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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          "ref": "2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: Electrification key to decarbonisation”, in Rail, page 16",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, vehicle, railroad) for electric power."
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        "(transitive) To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, vehicle, railroad) for electric power."
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "Her performance in the play electrified the audience."
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        {
          "ref": "1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda",
          "text": "Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition), page 100",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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          "thrill"
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        "(transitive) To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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        "English intransitive verbs"
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        "To make electric."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To make electric."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kahraba",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "كَهْرَبَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "électrifier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "électriser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "elektrifizieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ilektrízo",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "ηλεκτρίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "rafvæða"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "elektrizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "elettrificare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "whakahiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "eletrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "elektrificírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "электрифици́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "elektrifiera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "elektrificera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to communicate electricity to",
      "word": "ladda"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "électrifier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "électriser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "elektrifizieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ilektrízo",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "ηλεκτρίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "elektrizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "elettrificare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "whakahiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "eletrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "eletrizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "elektrizovátʹ",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "электризова́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naelektrizovátʹ",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "наэлектризова́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "elektrifiera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "elektrificera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
      "word": "strömsätta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kahraba",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "كَهْرَبَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "eljektryfikavácʹ",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "электрыфікава́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "電氣化"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "diànqìhuà",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "电气化"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "elektrizi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "électrifier"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "elektrifizieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "elettrificare"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "élektrlendıru",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "электрлендіру"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "elektryfikować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zelektryfikować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "eletrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "elektrificírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "электрифици́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "electrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "elektrifiera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "word": "elektrificera"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "elektryfikuváty",
      "sense": "to adapt for electric power",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "електрифікува́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to excite suddenly and violently",
      "word": "électriser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to excite suddenly and violently",
      "word": "exciter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to excite suddenly and violently",
      "word": "elektrisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ilektrízo",
      "sense": "to excite suddenly and violently",
      "word": "ηλεκτρίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to excite suddenly and violently",
      "word": "eletrizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to excite suddenly and violently",
      "word": "electrizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to excite suddenly and violently",
      "word": "elektrisera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to excite suddenly and violently",
      "word": "entusiasmera"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to become electric",
      "word": "eletrizar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "electrify"
}

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