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gal⋅va⋅nize

  [gal-vuh-nahyz]
–verb (used with object), -nized, -niz⋅ing.
1. to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
2. Medicine/Medical. to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced direct current (distinguished from faradize ).
3. to startle into sudden activity; stimulate.
4. to coat (metal, esp. iron or steel) with zinc.
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Also, especially British, gal⋅va⋅nise.

Origin:
1795–1805; < F galvaniser, named after Luigi Galvani; see -ize

Related forms:
gal⋅va⋅ni⋅za⋅tion, noun
gal⋅va⋅niz⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
3. rouse, stir, electrify, fire, spur, animate.
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gal·va·nize   (gāl'və-nīz')   
tr.v.   gal·va·nized, gal·va·niz·ing, gal·va·niz·es

  1. To stimulate or shock with an electric current.

  2. To arouse to awareness or action; spur: "Issues that once galvanized the electorate fade into irrelevance" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)

  3. To coat (iron or steel) with rust-resistant zinc.

gal'va·ni·za'tion (-nĭ-zā'shən) n., gal'va·niz'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

galvanize 
1802, from Fr. galvaniser, from galvanisme "electricity produced by chemical action," formed from name of It. physicist Luigi Galvani (1737-98) who discovered it while running currents through the legs of dead frogs. Figurative sense of "excite, stimulate (as if by electricity)" first recorded 1853. Meaning "to coat with metal by means of galvanic electricity" (especially to plate iron with tin) is from 1839.
"He'll swear that in her dancing she cuts all others out,
Though like a Gal that's galvanized, she throws her legs about."
[Thomas Hood, "Love has not Eyes," 1845]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: gal·va·nize
Variant: or British gal·va·nise /'gal-v&-"nIz/
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms:-nized or British -nised; -niz·ing or British -nis·ing
: to subject to the action of an electric current especially for thepurpose of stimulating physiologically <galvanize a muscle>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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