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Meaning of galvanised | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Of metal, coated with zinc as a form of protection against rust.
UK, not-comparable
Having been subjected to galvanism; electrified.
not-comparable, obsolete

Equivalents

Deutsch elektrisiert galvanisiert

Português galvanizado

Examples

“galvanised pipes”

“galvanised steel”

“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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

galvanized galvanocaustic galvanographic galvanomagnetic galvanometric galvanometrical