Synset:galvanise startle
Examples:
- the loud noise startled him awake
- galvanized into action
Derivationally Related Form:galvanisergalvanizergalvanizationgalvanisation
Hypernyms:ball over blow out of the water floor shock take aback
Inherited Hypernyms:startleshocksurpriseaffect
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | Somebody ---s somebody into V-ing something | The performance is likely to --- Sue (apply to: galvanize) | The bad news will --- him (apply to: galvanize, startle) | The good news will --- her (apply to: galvanize, startle)