galvanized

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I asked for a galvanized wash tub like we use to use to bathe our dog back in the day and the employee took me back to shop sinks!!!!!

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  1. transitive verb To stimulate or shock with an electric current.
  2. transitive verb To arouse to awareness or action; spur: "Issues that once galvanized the electorate fade into irrelevance” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
  3. transitive verb To coat (iron or steel) with rust-resistant zinc.

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  • But also I felt suddenly possessed, in that moment, by my dream perception -- galvanized and beguiled. —  F ;SF - vol 089 issue 02 - August 1995
  • His memoirs, written with Dale Vinicur, were published in 2005 as The teen-aged Don Helms got an electric steel guitar before the Alabama family farm got electricity, so he put it on top of a galvanized washtub and learned to play by listening to its resonation. —  NotionsCapital
  • President or Vice President who's been galvanized -- and softened -- by the demands and wonders of raising people. —  BlueOregon
  • I asked for a galvanized wash tub like we use to use to bathe our dog back in the day and the employee took me back to shop sinks!!!!! —  The Albert Lea Tribune
  • Thank goodness the hardware store by the mall knew what a galvanized wash tub was! —  The Albert Lea Tribune
 

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