re-electrify

verb

To electrify again.

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Meanings

verbre-electrify (third-person singular simple present re-electrifies, present participle re-electrifying, simple past and past participle re-electrified)

present singular third person re-electrifies · participle present re-electrifying · participle past re-electrified · past re-electrified

  1. To electrify again.

    As lines have been re-electrified, new rolling stock has been built by the firms of Werkspoor of Amsterdam, Beijnes of Haarlem and Allan of Rotterdam, and the position is now much easier.

    1951 March, E. J. Tyler, “Post-War Recovery on the Netherlands Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 154

Origin

From re- + electrify.

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