to galvanize support
1
5.8
- phrasal verb
- /ˈɡælvəˌnaɪz səˈpɔrt/
:
movilizar apoyo
- The educator galvanized support from both sides of the color line: from northern white benefactors and southern white political and industrial leaders on one side, to black educators, religious leaders, benevolent societies, and the black press on the other.
Examples
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They also fight for our budgets and spaces and galvanize community support in the face of closures and cutbacks.
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The Clinton administration used the rogue state rubric to galvanize support for its policies.
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If enough states galvanize public support, Congress will pass it.
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Now is the perfect time to galvanize support across the country and prove that prohibition does not work.
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The tragedy could also galvanize support for Positive Train Control, a technology to prevent rail accidents caused by human error.
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In the five years that ensued, he helped galvanize public support for those seriously wounded in the service of the country.
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The initiative aims to galvanize support and commitments from member states, U.N. sister agencies, the private sector, and non-profit organizations to provide quality education for every child.
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As in most protest organizing in Arab countries, the mosques played a key role in galvanizing Lebanese support for the anti-Assad movement.
Academic text (2012) -
Ironically, then, the same cult of Matilda that earlier may have inspired Lucrezia's donation for the new church seems to have galvanized support for the preservation of the old one.
Academic text (1999) -
The charity's new campaign aims to galvanize support for ending food insecurity in the community.
Synonyms
∞
3.6
To cause someone to want to do something strongly
837
3.2
Cause someone to feel excited and ready to act
437
3.5
Make someone want to do something
81
4.1
To encourage someone to take action or try harder
52
6.3
To visit people or contact them to win support
26
4.1
To try to get more interest or support by telling people about something
1
5.0
Make someone feel very excited and interested in something
1
4.2
To bring people together and make them want to act
Antonyms
How Supportive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derivable: 'galvanize' (to provoke or motivate people) applied to 'support' yields 'to motivate people to provide backing.' This verb + object combination follows a straightforward compositional pattern found across languages, so a learner who knows both constituents should understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase galvanize support comes from the scientist Luigi Galvani, who used electricity to make frog legs move suddenly and gave a strong image of a quick, powerful jolt. So galvanize support uses that image of an electric shock to 'push people into action' and make them actively support something.