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Galvanize   /gˈælvənˌaɪz/   Listen
Galvanize

verb
(past & past part. galvanized; pres. part. galvanizing)
1.
To stimulate to action.  Synonyms: galvanise, startle.  "Galvanized into action"
2.
Cover with zinc.  Synonym: galvanise.
3.
Stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock.  Synonym: galvanise.



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"Galvanize" Quotes from Famous Books



... this mistaken attempt to produce the cause by the effect, fancied themselves, and were pronounced by others, converted. Now the misfortune is, that this delusion is the more easy from the fact that the results of the two kinds of causes resemble each other. You may galvanize the nerve of a corpse till the action of a limb startles the spectator with the appearance of life. It is not life, it is only a spasmodic hideous mimicry of life. Men having seen that the spiritual is always associated with forms, endeavour by reproducing the forms ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson



Words linked to "Galvanize" :   floor, ball over, galvanization, surface, blow out of the water, coat, galvanism, shock, take aback



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