Usually means: Stimulate into action; coat metal.
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  1. galvanize: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. galvanize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. galvanize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. galvanize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  15. Galvanize (disambiguation), Galvanize (software company), Galvanize (song), Galvanize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  17. galvanize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. galvanize: Webster's 1828 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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