ENERGISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does energise mean? 

• ENERGISE (verb)
  The verb ENERGISE has 2 senses:

1. raise to a higher energy level

2. cause to be alert and energetic

  Familiarity information: ENERGISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENERGISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they energise    ... he / she / it energises   
Past simple: energised   
Past participle: energised   
-ing form: energising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Raise to a higher energy level

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

energise; energize; excite

Context example:

excite the atoms

Hypernyms (to "energise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

energiser (someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be alert and energetic

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate

Context example:

This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate

Hypernyms (to "energise" is one way to...):

affect (act physically on; have an effect upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "energise"):

cathect (inject with libidinal energy)

animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify (give new life or energy to)

invigorate; reinvigorate (impart vigor, strength, or vitality to)

animate; enliven; invigorate; liven; liven up (make lively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

de-energise (deprive of energy)

Derivation:

energiser (someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people)

 Context examples 

This material was blown out by strong stellar winds and energised by ultraviolet radiation from the hot stellar core left behind, creating a circumstellar nebula of dust and brightly-coloured hot gas.

(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)

The researchers discovered that their rough, multi-component alloyed preparations were actually improving the efficiency of the materials by creating lots of areas with different compositions that could trap the energised charge carriers, either from sunlight in a solar cell, or an electrical current in an LED.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)