galvanizing

verbinspire, stimulate

Synonyms for galvanizing

verb inspire, stimulate

Antonyms for galvanizing

Word Origin & History

1802, from French galvaniser, from galvanisme (see galvanism). 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, but now typically to plate it with zinc) is from 1839.

Related: Galvanized; galvanizing.

Example Sentences for galvanizing

Over all the area the Anglo-Saxon has laid his galvanizing hand.

And I want to ask papa particularly about galvanizing the mummy.

Did not you faint last night when they were galvanizing the bodies?

I fancy this will complete the job of galvanizing your friend for the time you require.

A flash of heroism was galvanizing the impressionable Bohemian.

"Because I don't believe in galvanizing dead friendships," I answered.

I saw a ripple of galvanizing energy race through his hands; then I managed an outcry.

What is the galvanizing force that impels these stranger children to overmaster circumstances and bestride the top of the world?

But I can't marry one man if what I feel for him is simply the galvanizing of a corpse.

Her rebuking words had the effect of galvanizing poor Harkness' limbs to action—but not his tongue.