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high-voltage
[ hahy-vohl-tij ]
adjective
- operating on or powered by high voltage:
a high-voltage generator.
- Informal. dynamic; powerful:
a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur.
Word History and Origins
Origin of high-voltage1
Example Sentences
To commit this “rudimentary political error,” he wrote, was to “touch a high-voltage line.”
But according to their assessment, the victim had already died after being electrocuted by the high-voltage fence.
A 2.6-meter high-voltage fence is intended to prevent inmates from escaping.
The high-voltage squabbling over Obamacare has made health care a particularly sore spot in this debate.
The U.S. has 215,000 miles of high-voltage power lines; 70 percent of those are more than 30 years old.
An armature wound with very fine wire will deliver a current of high voltage but of low amperage.
In the Thury system of power transmission high-voltage direct current is used throughout.
We could see that it was fully thirty feet high with what evidently were naked high-voltage wires protecting its top.
A quivering sensation like a charge of high voltage electricity shot through Dave.
But before beginning the anodynous "Wormwood," she launched into another high-voltage eulogy of Angelica's brother.
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