Usually means: Stimulate into action; coat metal.
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  1. galvanize: Merriam-Webster
  2. galvanize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. galvanize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. galvanize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. galvanize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Galvanize, galvanize: Wordnik
  7. galvanize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. galvanize: Wiktionary
  9. galvanize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. galvanize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. galvanize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. galvanize: Dictionary.com
  13. galvanize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. galvanize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Galvanize (disambiguation), Galvanize (software company), Galvanize (song), Galvanize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Galvanize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. galvanize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. galvanize: Rhymezone
  19. Galvanize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. galvanize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. galvanize: FreeDictionary.org
  22. galvanize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. galvanize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. galvanize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. galvanize: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. galvanize: Legal dictionary

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  1. galvanize: Encyclopedia

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  1. galvanize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  1. galvanize: A Word A Day
  2. galvanize: Idioms
  3. galvanize: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. galvanize: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (chemistry) To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means.
verb:  To coat with rust-resistant zinc.
verb:  (figurative) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.
verb:  (archaic) To electrify, as by galvanism.
verb:  (historical, US) To switch sides between Union and Confederate in the American Civil War.

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