electrify
verb (used with object)
to charge with or subject to electricity; apply electricity to.
had been electrifying
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past perfect progressiveof electrify.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The Member for Northampton had been electrifying the House by his free handling of a matter affecting the morality of private individuals, a course of action for which, later on, he was suspended.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Harry Furniss
