de-electrify
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de-electrify (third-person singular simple present de-electrifies, present participle de-electrifying, simple past and past participle de-electrified)
- (rail transport) To remove the electrification for powering electric trains from a railway.
- 2023 November 29, Richard Foster, “Tyne & Wear Metro goes with the flow”, in RAIL, number 997, page 32:
- It formed part of the LNER's electrified North Tyneside system until it was de-electrified by BR in 1963.