(transitive) To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill.
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Her performance in the play electrified the audience.
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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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1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II:
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Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.
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1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda:
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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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2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition)[1], page 100: