Galvanise
Meaning:
Galvanise means to excite or jolt someone into taking sudden action as if stimulated by an electric shock.
Origin:
The word comes from the French galvanisme or Italian galvanismo. It was coined to honour the 18th-Century scientist Luigi Galvani, who discovered that an electrical spark could make the muscles of a dead frog’s legs move. It entered English in the early 19th Century.
Example sentences:
Radhika shouted at her husband to galvanise him into taking action.
The angry tone of the coach’s voice during timeout galvanised the team into scoring two consecutive goals.
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