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galvanize

 (v): to stimulate to action
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7 months ago rolig said:

This word derives from the name of the Italian physician/physicist Luigi Galvani (1734–1798), whose research into the effect of electricity applied to dead frog muscles was one of the inspirations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

8 months ago seanahan said:

This word is actually an eponym. It belongs on a number of lists.

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