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English
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Adjective
galvanised (not comparable)
- (British spelling) Of metal, coated with zinc as a form of protection against rust.
galvanised pipes
galvanised steel
- (obsolete) Having been subjected to galvanism; electrified.
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 302:I go to London and see the busy multitudes in Fleet Street and the Strand, and it comes across my mind that they are but the ghosts of the past, haunting the streets that I have seen silent and wretched, going to and fro, phantasms in a dead city, the mockery of life in a galvanized body.
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Verb
galvanised
- simple past and past participle of galvanise