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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of galvanize.

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Examples

  • He had limited creole support, but his call galvanized hundreds of peasants and mineworkers who had suffered oppressive conditions in the Bajío region.

    h. New Spain (Mexico) 2001

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • He was taken to the probationary - commonly called galvanized barracks.

    The war, James H. Wood 1910

  • 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

  • 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

  • GOP sources said Palin's call galvanized conservatives on the race but angered some insiders who resented her interfering in the matter.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • GOP sources said Palin's call galvanized conservatives on the race but angered some insiders who resented her interfering in the matter.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • 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

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  • 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

  • A little known way Eifel is galvanized. ((view)click on church in visuals.)

    October 10, 2011