Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to galvanize
Participle: galvanized
Gerund: galvanizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | galvanize |
| you | galvanize |
| he;she;it | galvanizes |
| we | galvanize |
| you | galvanize |
| they | galvanize |
Perfect
| I | have galvanized |
| you | have galvanized |
| he;she;it | has galvanized |
| we | have galvanized |
| you | have galvanized |
| they | have galvanized |
Past
| I | galvanized |
| you | galvanized |
| he;she;it | galvanized |
| we | galvanized |
| you | galvanized |
| they | galvanized |
Pluperfect
| I | had galvanized |
| you | had galvanized |
| he;she;it | had galvanized |
| we | had galvanized |
| you | had galvanized |
| they | had galvanized |
Future
| I | will galvanize |
| you | will galvanize |
| he;she;it | will galvanize |
| we | will galvanize |
| you | will galvanize |
| they | will galvanize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have galvanized |
| you | will have galvanized |
| he;she;it | will have galvanized |
| we | will have galvanized |
| you | will have galvanized |
| they | will have galvanized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | galvanize |
| you | galvanize |
| he;she;it | galvanize |
| we | galvanize |
| you | galvanize |
| they | galvanize |
Perfect
| I | have galvanized |
| you | have galvanized |
| he;she;it | have galvanized |
| we | have galvanized |
| you | have galvanized |
| they | have galvanized |
Imperfect
| I | galvanized |
| you | galvanized |
| he;she;it | galvanized |
| we | galvanized |
| you | galvanized |
| they | galvanized |
Pluperfect
| I | had galvanized |
| you | had galvanized |
| he;she;it | had galvanized |
| we | had galvanized |
| you | had galvanized |
| they | had galvanized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would galvanize |
| you | would galvanize |
| he;she;it | would galvanize |
| we | would galvanize |
| you | would galvanize |
| they | would galvanize |
Perfect
| I | would have galvanized |
| you | would have galvanized |
| he;she;it | would have galvanized |
| we | would have galvanized |
| you | would have galvanized |
| they | would have galvanized |
Imperative
| you | galvanize |
| we | Let's galvanize |
| you | galvanize |
Verbs conjugated like 'galvanize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'galvanize'
galvanise,
galvinize,
balkanize,
Balkanize,
calvinize,
Calvinize,
alienize,
alkalize,
arianize,
aryanize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 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]
2. Learned borrowing from French galvaniser. By surface analysis, galvano- + -ize. Named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798).
Sample Sentences
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We then galvanize the steel so that the zinc coating will sacrificially take the corrosion for many years.
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The girl’s picture helped galvanize public opinion against the administration’s policy.
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Republicans are hoping a proposed gas-tax repeal will galvanize their voters.
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The arrival of the kett stunned and then divided the angara. As described by Jaal, infighting was used as a means of conquest by the kett, but the presence of a common enemy eventually galvanized the angara to work together. The various resistance groups merged into the organized Angaran Resistance roughly five years ago under Evfra de Tershaav's command, supported by prominent families and determined to stop their kett oppressors. [2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: The Resistance Codex entry:]
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s bombshell proposal to take over the Gaza Strip and relocate its Palestinian inhabitants has made the forced transfer of populations – a war crime – a policy discussion, galvanizing Arab states. [2025 February 6, Taylor Luck, Ghada Abdulfattah, “How Trump’s proposed plan for Gaza has united an outraged Arab world”, in The Christian Science Monitor:]
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The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man. [1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History (essay in the Edinburgh Review)]
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Reenactors called this “galvanizing,” the Civil War term for soldiers who switched sides during the conflict. [1998, Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic, 1st Vintage Departures edition, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 10:]