"electrify" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the action of supplying electrical power to a location or system, or to emphasize the strong emotion of surprise or excitement. For example: "The opening band's performance electrified the crowd!"
And we have known for a year that the government was going to electrify the Hull to Selby train line.
That closed, dictatorial country would find it hard to maintain its isolation through the hectic schedule of chairing a 56-member organisation.Similarly, putting some notorious narco-state in charge would electrify the UN's sleepily-run drug programme.
However, he struggles to electrify a crowd or make undecided voters swoon.
In America Barack Obama has failed to deliver the immigration reform he promised (see article), and Republican presidential candidates would rather electrify the border fence with Mexico than educate the children of illegal aliens.
Fibre is expensive, and a purely commercial business would not have been minded to pay for it.All this is true for much of rural America, and it is an analogue of the reason why municipal utility companies were launched in the first place: to electrify thinly-populated areas where commercial utilities would not go.
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Replacing their aqueous electrolytes with organic ones would overcome this limitation, and Argonne's researchers are endeavouring to do so.A battery-driven world, then, would electrify parts of the economy, such as transport, that have been recalcitrant, and would encourage the shift from costly (and polluting) fossil fuels to "fuels" such as sunlight that cost nothing.
Mr Bush's first secretary of state described the Democrat as a "transformational figure" who would "electrify" America and the world.
The extra cash would be used in a variety of cost-effective ways: more bed-nets to fight malaria, better roads to help peasants get their crops to market, more diesel generators to electrify villages, and better schools among other things.
Above all, many doubt whether any party leader can really inspire voters at a time when politics itself provokes widespread contempt, and did so even before the crass abuse by parliamentarians of their expenses was unveiled earlier this year.But if the Conservatives cannot electrify voters, they can at least address their most pressing concerns, and these centre on the fiscal crisis.
While the north makes do with a few scraps here and there to electrify railways, or extend platforms, London's mayor Boris Johnson demands a new airport hub at a cost of £60bn or so.
