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Word entry · 8 letters

galvanic

Best crossword clue

"Electrically produced"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ɡælˈvænɪk/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aacgilnvStarts with GEnds with C1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling

Word origin

From French galvanique, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -ique.

Used in a sentence

  • [S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion.
  • Whether the town existed during Mr. Tapley's time I have not been able to learn. . . . At that moment a galvanic motion had been pumped into it by the war movements of General Halleck.
  • Then he clenched his fists, and, with an agility astonishing in a man of his years, indulged in a series of galvanic little hops in front of the astounded Peter Truefitt.

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