Electrized

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Feeling intense excitement or enthusiasm; charged with an electric current or energy
2. Experiencing a strong emotional thrill or animation; imbued with electrical power or voltage
3. Being deeply stimulated or invigorated emotionally; electrically energized or carrying an electric charge

Etymology: "Electrized" is the past tense of "electrize," a verb meaning to fill someone with excitement or to stir them suddenly, as if by a charge. The verb was borrowed from French "électriser," which took the electrical sense of "electricity" and turned it into a figure of speech. The French word itself grew out of "électrique," the adjective that the physician William Gilbert had made from Latin "electrum," the name for amber, which was rubbed to produce static in the ancient world. The idea behind the verb is that a crowd or an audience can be charged up in the way a battery charges a wire, so that the jolt passes from person to person. Its use in English is a borrowing of that image, carried over from French as a metaphor for emotional shock. The verb is much less common than its close relative "electrify," which is the form most English writers reach for today.

Synonyms: charged, energized

Antonyms: discharged