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Galvanise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of galvanize. UK, alt-of, alternative

    ""We have completely rejuvenated the project. Everyone is galvanised. We will get it open - and open means open. [...].""

  2. 2
    stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock wordnet
  3. 3
    cover with zinc wordnet
  4. 4
    to stimulate to action wordnet

Etymology

From French galvaniser, from galvanisme, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798). By surface analysis, galvano- + -ise.

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