Electrify

Definitions: Electrify

Electrify

Verb

1. Excite suddenly and intensely; "The news electrified us".

2. Charge with electricity, as of a conductor.

3. Equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance".

Date "electrify" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Synonym: Electrify

Synonym: wire (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitation	Agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.
Inexpectation	Surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish, dumbfound; (strike with wonder).
Wonder	Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Electrify

English words defined with "electrify": Electrified. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Electrify Your Web Site in a Weekend (reference) Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Electrify Your Dollhouse (Master Miniaturists) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Bulgaria	Bulgaria also plans to complete a two-kilometer link with FYR Macedonia and to upgrade and electrify 80 kilometers of track between Sofia and the Macedonian border. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Electrify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Electrify" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	88.24%	15	90,616
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.76%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

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Language		Translations for "electrify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		elektrizoj (galvanize, thrill), elektrifikoj (electrize). (various references)

Arabic		‏كهرب, ‏هيج حمس, ‏زود بالطاقة الكهربائية, ‏أثار بقوة, ‏شحن بالكهرباء. (various references)

Bulgarian		наелектризирам (electrize), електрифицирам. (various references)

Czech		elektrifikovat (power), zapálit (blow in, enkindle, fire, ignite, kindle, light, set fire, set fire to, set on fire), uchvátit (carry away, catch up, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, grip, ravish, usurp), nadchnout (enthuse, galvanize). (various references)

Farsi		تحت تاثیربرق قراردادن , الکتریکی کردن , به هیجان اوردن (Inflame), برق زده کردن . (various references)

Finnish		sähköistää. (various references)

French		galvaniser, électriser, électrifier (bring electricity to). (various references)

German		elektrisieren (accidental electrifying contact, electrize, electro-convulsive therapy, electrotherapeutic measures, electrotherapy, galvanize), elektrisiere, elektrifizieren. (various references)

Greek		ηλεκτρίζω. (various references)

Hebrew		לחשמל (shock). (various references)

Hungarian		villamosít (to electrify), felvillanyoz (Energize, galvanize, to electrify, to energize, to enliven, to galvanize, to thrill). (various references)

Indonesian		elektrisir, mengelektriskan, mengelektrifikasi. (various references)

Italian		elettrizzare (be electrified, thrill), elettrificare. (various references)

Manx		lectraghey (electrification), cur lectraghys ayn. (various references)

Pig Latin		electrifyay.(various references)

Portuguese		eletrizar (electroacoustics), eletrificar, eletrificação. (various references)

Romanian		entuziasma (carry away, carry smb. off his feet, enrapture, enthuse, exalt, spirit, transport), electriza (galvanize, thrill), electrifica (electrize). (various references)

Russian		электрифицировать (electrize, motorize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		elektrifikovati, naelektrisati. (various references)

Spanish		electrizar (electrize). (various references)

Swedish		elektrisera (electrize), elektrifiera (electrize), elda (electrize, excite, fire, heat, light a fire, rouse). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้เกิ�"ประจุไฟฟ้า, ทำให้ตื่นเต้น (flurry, hype, key up). (various references)

Turkish		elektriklendirmek, elektriklemek, elektriğe dönüştürmek, heyecanlandırmak (carry away, exalt, excite, ferment, flush, hot up, impassion, inebriate, key up, Spike, stir, stir up, sweep away, sweep off, thrill, tickle up, transport, turn on, unsettle, warm up, wind up, work up). (various references)

Turkmen		elektrifisirlemek. (various references)

Ukranian		збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, animate, arouse, elevate, exalt, excite, flurry, flush, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up), електрифікувати (electrize, motorize), електризувати (electrize). (various references)

Welsh		trydanu, gwefreiddio (thrill). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "electrify": electrifying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Electrify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: electricy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "electrify" (pronounced ule"ktrufī')
5	-t r u f ī'	gentrify, petrify.
4	-r u f ī'	clarify, glorify, horrify, purify, terrify, verify.
3	-u f ī'	acidify, amplify, beautify, calcify, certify, classify, codify, crucify, decertify, declassify, deify, demystify, detoxify, dignify, disqualify, diversify, edify, exemplify, falsify, fortify, gratify, identify, indemnify, intensify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, modify, mollify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, nullify, ossify, oversimplify, pacify, personify, qualify, quantify, ramify, ratify, reclassify, rectify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, solidify, specify, stratify, stultify, testify, typify, unify, vilify.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-l-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: celerity, fiercely.
	-2 letters: certify, erectly, fertile, flytier, rectify, reflect, reticle, tiercel.
	-3 letters: ceiler, celery, cerite, eerily, ferity, ferlie, fierce, filter, fleecy, flirty, freely, lefter, liefer, lifter, recite, refect, refelt, refile, reflet, relict, relief, retile, rifely, telfer, tercel, tierce, trifle.
	-4 letters: citer, cleft, clift, creel, elect, elite, erect, eyrie, ferly, feyer, fiery, filer, filet, fitly, fleer, fleet, flier, flirt, flite, flyer, flyte, leery, lefty, lifer, liter, litre, lycee, lyric, lytic, recti, reefy, refel, refit, refly, reify, relet, relic, relit, retie, rifle, riley, telic, terce, tiler, trice.
	-5 letters: ceil, celt, cere, cete, cire, cite, city, clef, clit, eely, eery, etic, eyer, eyre, feel, feet, felt, fere, fete, fice, file, fire, flee, fley, flic, flit, free, fret, frit, fyce, leer, leet, left, lice, lief, lier, life, lift, lire, lite, lyre, reef, reel, reft, reif, rely, rete, rice, riel, rife, rift, rile, rite, teel, tele, tier, tile, tire, tirl, tree, tref, trey, tyee, tyer, tyre, yeti.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-i-l-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: imperfectly.
	+3 letters: electrifying, frenetically, perfectively, reflectively, reflectivity, refractively.
	+5 letters: enforceability, multifrequency, perfectibility.
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