Galvanize vs Provoke - What's the difference?
galvanize | provoke |
To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means; to electroplate.
To coat with rust-resistant zinc
To shock or stimulate into sudden activity
(archaic) To electrify.
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
* Bible, Eph. vi. 4
to bring about a reaction.
* J. Burroughs
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(obsolete) To appeal.
As verbs the difference between galvanize and provoke
is that galvanize is to coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means; to electroplate while provoke is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.galvanize
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Alternative forms
* galvanise (mostly UK )Verb
(galvaniz)- The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.
Synonyms
* (to shock or stimulate) startleDerived terms
* galvanizationprovoke
English
Verb
(provok)- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
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- (Dryden)