electrified

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  1. transitive verb To produce electric charge on or in (a conductor).
  2. transitive verb To wire or equip (a building, for example) for the use of electric power.
  3. transitive verb To provide with electric power.

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  • Value as yet unknown Geronimo and Fee were electrified, and all of us began to shell Poulos with questions. —  Analog December, 1974
  • Need we add the court was electrified, and the slaveholder shrunk out! —  Narrative of the Life of James Watkins
  • Dust particles on the Moon are also electrified, at least in part, by the buffeting of the solar wind. —  YubaNet.com
  • They will have to be entirely electrified, and / or magnetic levitation lines, which will, in turn, require a major increase in the availability of power-which can only come from the large-scale development of nuclear energy. —  LaRouche's Latest
  • Ohio does plan to extend their service from Cleveland to Buffalo (& TO) via Erie as part of their Ohio Hub Plan. the kind of HSR that is being discussed is really more of an intermediate version; non-electrified, and using the existing right-of-way. my semi-informed prediction is the route will max out at 110 mph west of Albany, and 125 mph south (since that right of way is partially in public transit's hands). —  Buffalo Pundit
 

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