ENERGIZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does energizing mean? 

• ENERGIZING (noun)
  The noun ENERGIZING has 1 sense:

1. the activity of causing to have energy and be active

  Familiarity information: ENERGIZING used as a noun is very rare.

• ENERGIZING (adjective)
  The adjective ENERGIZING has 1 sense:

1. supplying motive force

  Familiarity information: ENERGIZING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENERGIZING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of causing to have energy and be active

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

activating; activation; energizing

Hypernyms ("energizing" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "energizing"):

electrification (the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group)

animation; invigoration; vivification (the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something)

Derivation:

energize (cause to be alert and energetic)

energize (raise to a higher energy level)

• ENERGIZING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supplying motive force

Synonyms:

energising; energizing; kinetic

Context example:

the complex civilization of which Rome was the kinetic center

Similar:

dynamic; dynamical (characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality)

 Context examples 

The simulations indicate spicules could play a big role in energizing the sun’s atmosphere, by constantly forcing plasma out and generating so many Alfvén waves across the sun’s entire surface.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)

This results in particles colliding near light-speed, energizing the plasma until it begins to emit the stream of optical radiation.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

As you begin November, Mars is still energizing your ninth house of distant travel, a place Mars moved into last month on October 3 and will continue to tour until November 18.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)