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v. To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire.

v. To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.

v. To cause death from immediate complications resulting from electric shock.

v. To inflict a severe electric shock, not necessarily fatally.

v. To execute or put to death by electricity.

n. See electricute, electricution.

v. kill by electric shock

v. kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

"The object was to deter evildoers by surrounding the penalty with scientific horror, [Footnote: Hence also the new lingual atrocity, the word "electrocute," derived from "execute" by decapitation and the addition of "electro"] and the idea had its origin in the accidents which formerly occurred much more frequently than now."

electrocuted    electrocutes    electrocuting   

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