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/gˈælvənˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

Galvanize v. t. (past & past part. galvanized; pres. part. galvanizing)

To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.

To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.

To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.

To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.

Galvanized iron, formerly, iron coated with zink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.

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Etymology of 'Galvanize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Galvanize" Quotes from Famous Books

... hidden in ourselves or in the medium? According to Dr. Osty, the clairvoyants are mirrors reflecting the intuitive thought that is latent in each of us. In other words—it is we ourselves who are clairvoyant, and they but reveal to us nor own clairvoyance. Their mission is to stir, to awaken, to galvanize, to illumine the secrets of our subconsciousness and to bring them to the surface of our normal lives. They act upon our inner darkness exactly as, in the photographic dark-room, the developing-bath acts upon the sensitized ...

— The Unknown Guest • Maurice Maeterlinck

... organize industry, free the slaves, educate the freedmen,—then the selection was still more doubtful. For this sphere of action, which had seemed so important to Mitchell and to Hunter, was foreign to Gillmore's whole habits and temperament, and he never could galvanize himself into caring for it. His strong point, after all, was in dealing with metal rather than with men, white or black. And as (since the disaster at Olustee) he can hardly be charged with any squeamish unwillingness to throw ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various