galvanizein a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
galvanize as in: galvanized into action
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The event is intended to galvanize support for the fight against man-made global warming and climate change.
galvanize = stimulate to action
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While for Napoleon on Elba, strolling among chickens, fending off flies, and sidestepping puddles of mud, it was visions of a triumphal return to Paris that galvanized his will to persevere. (source)galvanized = stimulated or strengthened
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Perhaps because he was determined to make up for having walked out on them, perhaps because Harry's descent into listlessness galvanized his dormant leadership qualities, Ron was the one now encouraging and exhorting the other two into action. (source)galvanized = stimulated to action
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The words are the same, but the voice of Madame Ruelle is different. Galvanized. (source)Galvanized = stimulating or energizing
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It was a mistake; the radio had suddenly gone quiet, and my voice ringing in the abrupt, releasing hush galvanized them all. (source)galvanized = stimulated to action
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She prowled the foulest, most sordid neighborhoods of the city, fearlessly talking to prostitutes and trying to galvanize them to work together and inform on the pimps. (source)galvanize = stimulate to action
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Although rare, a plus four—for dire emergency—galvanizes everyone into action. (source)galvanizes = stimulates or motivates
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A tumult up the road, a quarrel for a place in a waggon, sent the whole host of them quickening their pace; even a man so scared and broken that his knees bent under him was galvanised for a moment into renewed activity.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it galvanized.
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The movement of over 100,000 men—Marines, Navy support personnel, Coast Guard units—across four thousand miles of ocean for three weeks is a triumph of American industry galvanizing itself in a time of great national peril.† (source)
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—Communist pamphlet (5) If a new spirit is to be infused into this old country, there is one thorny and contentious reform which must be tackled, and that is the humanization and galvanization of the B.B.C. Timidity here will bespeak canker and atrophy of the soul.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Not since the Chicago Fire of 1871 had the city's newspapers been so galvanized by a single event. (source)galvanized = stimulated to action
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The panic in Katie's voice seemed to galvanize Josh and he grabbed Kristen's hand and took off running. (source)galvanize = stimulate to action
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Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been galvanised.† (source)
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I understand that, but I do not understand what it is that galvanizes you in this manner.† (source)
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galvanize as in: galvanized steel
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The screws were supposed to be galvanized, but they rusted anyway.
galvanized = coated with zinc
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A galvanized smokestack pierced its sloped roof. (source)galvanized = coated with zinc (to prevent rust)
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THE SHOP IN FRANKLIN was ready to roof, so two days after Christmas I forced my toe, still crooked and black, into a steel-toed boot, then spent the morning on a roof driving threading screws into galvanized tin. (source)
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Now the cabin was ready for galvanized roofing sheets. (source)
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The pagoda-style roofs were made of gold-tinged tiles and surrounded by qilin gargoyles, but the tiles were actually galvanized steel covered with tiny solar capsules that created enough energy to... (source)galvanized = coated with zinc (to prevent rust)
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In a corner of the room stand two galvanized buckets filled to the rim with water. (source)
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I was tossing pebbles into an old galvanized-tin pail nearby and she startled me. (source)
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The galvanized bucket remained perfectly still on top of her head—a great, levitating crown. (source)
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David stopped, taken so powerfully into the past that he expected to see them again: his mother coming down the steps with a galvanized tin tub to collect water for the laundry, his sister sitting on the porch, and the sound of the ax striking logs from where his father chopped firewood, just out of sight. (source)
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He nestled the galvanized steel pails into the crushed ice, capped them, and slammed the lid of the chest. (source)
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Beside the blockhouse, we erected a flagpole, of two-inch galvanized pipe discovered abandoned alongside a gas wellhead up Mudhole Hollow (source)
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He tied the horses in front of the tienda he'd passed the night before and went in and bought a sack of oats for the horses and he borrowed a galvanized bucket with which to water them and he stood in the alameda leaning on the rifle and watching them drink. (source)
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Instead I looked with loathing on new dresses that required a hateful bath in a galvanized zinc tub before wearing. (source)
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And it's everybody taking a bath in the round galvanized tub, then Obasan washing clothes in the water after and standing outside hanging the clothes in the freezing weather where everything instantly stiffens on the line. (source)
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