Post by t-bob on Jan 23, 2019 11:04:37 GMT -5
ADRENALIZE
verb
1. to stir to action; excite: The promise of victory adrenalized the team.
Quotes
It all seemed some sort of overblown, middle-American hysteria, a desire to adrenalize an otherwise sleepy existence. -- Adam Buckley Cohen, "A Psychological Twister," New York Times, May 28, 2011 Stocco is being touted as a guy who can adrenalize a program that has gone a mediocre 13-19 in the Big Ten over the last five years. -- Clete Campbell, "Stocco a cool QB," Telegraph-Herald, August 21, 2004
Origin
Adrenalize is an unimaginative compound of the noun adrenaline and -ize, a Greek verb suffix completely naturalized. Adrenalize was first used in the early 20th century in the now rare sense “to treat with adrenaline.” In the 1930s it acquired a metaphorical meaning, “to stir to action, excite; be stirred to action, be excited.”
verb
1. to stir to action; excite: The promise of victory adrenalized the team.
Quotes
It all seemed some sort of overblown, middle-American hysteria, a desire to adrenalize an otherwise sleepy existence. -- Adam Buckley Cohen, "A Psychological Twister," New York Times, May 28, 2011 Stocco is being touted as a guy who can adrenalize a program that has gone a mediocre 13-19 in the Big Ten over the last five years. -- Clete Campbell, "Stocco a cool QB," Telegraph-Herald, August 21, 2004
Origin
Adrenalize is an unimaginative compound of the noun adrenaline and -ize, a Greek verb suffix completely naturalized. Adrenalize was first used in the early 20th century in the now rare sense “to treat with adrenaline.” In the 1930s it acquired a metaphorical meaning, “to stir to action, excite; be stirred to action, be excited.”
