Electrify vs Electricize - What's the difference?
electrify | electricize |
To communicate or supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.
To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.
To excite suddenly and violently, especially by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill.
* Macaulay
* George Eliot
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To become electric.
to adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, railroad) for electric power
As verbs the difference between electrify and electricize
is that electrify is to communicate or supply electricity to; to charge with electricity while electricize is to electrify.electrify
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en-verb)- to electrify a jar
- to electrify a limb, or the body
- This patriotic sentiment electrified the audience.
- 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.
- Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.