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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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{
"word": "de-electrify"
},
{
"word": "electrifiable"
},
{
"word": "electrification"
},
{
"word": "electrifier"
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{
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"text": "to electrify a cable",
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"ref": "2022 August 10, Philip Haigh, “Scotland switched on to electrification”, in RAIL, number 963, page 35:",
"text": "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.\"",
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"(transitive) To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity."
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"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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"word": "galvanize"
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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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"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.",
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{
"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": "2009 January 14, Ben Brantley, Jason Zinoman, “In Festival, Biography, Beckett and Blues”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "His poeticized version of a news flash about the advent of AIDS (the disease that killed his mother) electrifies, as it should, like unexpected lightning.",
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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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"To make electric."
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"(intransitive) To make electric."
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"intransitive"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "kahraba",
"sense": "to communicate electricity to",
"word": "كَهْرَبَ"
},
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to communicate electricity to",
"word": "electrificar"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to communicate electricity to",
"word": "électrifier"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to communicate electricity to",
"word": "électriser"
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{
"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"
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{
"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"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to communicate electricity to",
"word": "elektrifiera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to communicate electricity to",
"word": "elektrificera"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to communicate electricity to",
"word": "ladda"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to communicate electricity to",
"word": "trydanu"
},
{
"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"
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{
"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"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ilektrízo",
"sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
"word": "ηλεκτρίζω"
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{
"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"
],
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
"word": "electrificar"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
"word": "elektrifiera"
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{
"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": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to cause electricity to pass through",
"word": "trydanu"
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "kahraba",
"sense": "to adapt for electric power",
"word": "كَهْرَبَ"
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{
"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",
"roman": "diànqìhuà",
"sense": "to adapt for electric power",
"word": "電氣化 /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"
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{
"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"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ilektrízo",
"sense": "to excite suddenly and violently",
"word": "ηλεκτρίζω"
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{
"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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