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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
galvanize .
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Examples
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He had limited creole support, but his call galvanized hundreds of peasants and mineworkers who had suffered oppressive conditions in the Bajío region.
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In contrafactual history, I don't have to spend six days worrying about what to call a galvanized nail in a world with no Lord Galvan.
a complex and sometimes lethal machine barbara_hambly 2009
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That simple word galvanized a movement that went on to de-legitimize a constellation of abuses linked to gender.
Robert Fuller: Peaceful Revolution: What Are Moms Rising Against? 2009
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The galvanizing of iron is another attempt to secure the same result; in this process iron is dipped into molten zinc, thereby acquiring a coating of zinc, and forming what is known as galvanized iron.
General Science Bertha M. Clark
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He was taken to the probationary - commonly called galvanized barracks.
The war, James H. Wood 1910
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It was an excellent suggestion, for although the sergeant on duty was wholly unresponsive there was a telephone, and at the end of the telephone in his little Haymarket flat, a Superintendent McNorton, the mention of whose very name galvanized the police office to activity.
The Green Rust Edgar Wallace 1903
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The sinister word galvanized the dying woman in sudden strong life, and she reared herself again on the bed.
The Green Mummy Fergus Hume 1895
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GOP sources said Palin's call galvanized conservatives on the race but angered some insiders who resented her interfering in the matter.
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GOP sources said Palin's call galvanized conservatives on the race but angered some insiders who resented her interfering in the matter.
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Today, Bahrain erupted again when ten thousand people streamed into Manama's Pearl Square "galvanized" by the death of a protestor on Monday and another on Tuesday.
Sharmine Narwani: Washington's Valentine's Day Faux Pas in the Middle East Sharmine Narwani 2011
dbekeny commented on the word galvanized
WIZARD
As for you, my galvanized friend, you want
a heart! You don't know how lucky you are
not to have one. Hearts will never be
practical until they can be made
unbreakable. I could have been a world
figure, a power among men, a - a successful
wizard, had I not been obstructed by a heart.
June 11, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word galvanized
A little known way Eifel is galvanized. ((view)click on church in visuals.)
October 10, 2011