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Galvanising

adjective
1.
Affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling.  Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing.  "The new leader had a galvanic effect on morale"



Galvanise

verb
1.
To stimulate to action.  Synonyms: galvanize, startle.  "Galvanized into action"
2.
Cover with zinc.  Synonym: galvanize.
3.
Stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock.  Synonym: galvanize.



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"Galvanising" Quotes from Famous Books



... tinned in 1779, under Jonathan Taylor's patent. Tinning wire is one of the branches of trade rapidly going out, partly through the introduction of the galvanising process, but latterly in consequence of the invention of "screw," "ball," and other bottle stoppers. There were but five or six firms engaged in it ten years back, but the then demand for bottling-wire ...
— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell

... gilded with its fatal brilliancy; with the other by a false shame which sophisticated on the pretension to preserve constancy in fidelity. The time came when this factitious existence, which succeeded no longer in galvanising fibres dried up under the eyes of the spiritualistic artist, seemed to him to surpass what honour permitted him not to perceive. No one knew what was the cause or the pretext of the sudden rupture; one saw only that after a violent opposition ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks



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