Synonyms of the word

galvanise

• v. (transitive, chiefly Britain) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity.
• v. (transitive, chiefly Britain) To coat with rust-resistant zinc.
• v. (transitive, chemistry, chiefly Britain) To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means.

coat

• n. (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.^Wp.
• n. (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.^Wp.
• n. (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.^Wp.
• n. (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent…
• n. (obsolete) A petticoat.
• n. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
• n. A coat of arms.^Wp.
• n. A coat card.
• v. To cover with a coat of some material.
• v. To cover as a coat.

floor

• n. The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
• n. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
• n. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
• n. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally…
• n. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
• n. A storey/story of a building.
• n. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
• n. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
• n. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
• n. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
• n. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
• n. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
• n. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
• n. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
• n. (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders…
• n. A dance floor.
• n. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
• v. To cover or furnish with a floor.
• v. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
• v. (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly.
• v. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
• v. To amaze or greatly surprise.
• v. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
• v. (mathematics) To set a lower bound.

galvanize

• v. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, chemistry) To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means;…
• v. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To coat with rust-resistant zinc.
• v. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To electrify.
• v. (transitive, dated, American Civil War) To switch sides between Union and Confederate.

shock

• n. Sudden, heavy impact.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
• v. To cause to be emotionally shocked.
• v. To give an electric shock.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
• n. An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
• n. (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
• n. (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass).
• n. (obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
• v. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

startle

• v. (intransitive) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
• v. (transitive) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously;…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deter; to cause to deviate.
• n. A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

stun

• v. (transitive) To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
• v. (transitive) To shock or surprise.
• v. (snooker, billiards) To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without…
• n. The condition of being stunned.
• n. (Newfoundland) A person who is deemed to be unintelligent.
• n. (billiard, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or…

surface

• n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
• n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
• n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
• n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
• v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
• v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
• v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
• v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
• v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.