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galvanised

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

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

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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.
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