galvanized


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gal·va·nize

 (găl′və-nīz′)
tr.v. gal·va·nized, gal·va·niz·ing, gal·va·niz·es
1. To stimulate or shock with an electric current.
2. To arouse to awareness or action; spur: "The country was galvanized in the weeks and months after 9/11" (Davis Phinney).
3. To coat (iron or steel) with rust-resistant zinc.
gal′va·ni·za′tion (-nĭ-zā′shən) n.
gal′va·niz′er n.
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galvanized

(ˈɡælvəˌnaɪzd) or

galvanised

adj
stimulated to action; excited; startled(of iron, steel, etc) covered with a protective zinc coatingstimulated by application of an electric current
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galvanized

[ˈgælvənaɪzd] ADJ → galvanizado
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galvanized

[ˈgælvənaɪzd] galvanised (British) adj [metal] → galvanisé(e)
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galvanized

adj iron, steel → galvanisiert
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At the clanking of their frightful irons, the unhappy child quivered like a dead frog which is being galvanized. "Oh!" she murmured, so low that no one heard her; "Oh, my Phoebus!" Then she fell back once more into her immobility and her marble silence.
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What would happen should one of the moribund Spanish gun-boats be suddenly galvanized into a flicker of active life did not trouble us, once we were inside the bay--so completely did it appear out of the reach of a meddling world; and besides, in those days we were imaginative enough to look with a kind of joyous equanimity on any chance there was of being quietly hanged somewhere out of the way of diplomatic remonstrance.
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So the scream of Sabor, the lioness, galvanized the brain and muscles of little Tarzan into instant action.
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His efforts would have succeeded had not this unexpected interruption galvanized the malign brain of the Russian into instant action with its sudden promise of deliverance and revenge.
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He suspended the work of his hands to listen, and, when he recognized Jerry's wailing, sprang to his feet, galvanized into action.
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I saw that he was headed toward a little point of the forest which ran out toward the sea not far from where we had been standing, and as the mighty creature, the sight of which had galvanized him into such remarkable action, was forging steadily toward me.
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They were buried as they died, being carted on a sheet of galvanized iron, in their nakedness, from the hospital to the hole in the ground.
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No other communication could have galvanized him into such energy.
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She like a galvanized corpse out of some Hoffman's Tale--he the preacher of feminist gospel for all the world, and a super- revolutionist besides!
Her rigidity was frightful, like the rigor of a corpse galvanized into harsh speech and glittering stare by the force of murderous hate.
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His eyes sought the length of the canoe in search of the paddle, for a determination had galvanized him to immediate action despite his weakness and his wound.
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"What, what?" he cried seeming galvanized into sudden life.
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