[
UK
/ɪlˈɛktɹəkjˌuːt/
]
[ US /ˌɪˈɫɛktɹəkˌjut/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈɫɛktɹəkˌjut/ ]
VERB
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kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
The serial killer was electrocuted -
kill by electric shock
She dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub and was instantly electrocuted
How To Use electrocute In A Sentence
- Mehna was jolted hard, as if she'd been electrocuted, and she felt herself dislodge from the tranquilizer.
- She saw the lightning hit him and electrocute him.
- A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
- They used to beat us up, electrocute us, they did a lot of things for us in active abuse.
- But he ran through the portal before the track was laid, and he climbed a catenary pole, and was electrocuted.
- All are on a wire and one will go to another wire and when that bird doesn't get electrocuted, all the birds will go to that other wire.
- The boy was electrocuted when he wandered onto a railway track.
- Don't touch that wire, you'll electrocute yourself.
- James Roach was electrocuted in South Carolina in 1986 .
- But if someone just says his washing machine is a bad one, you don't know yet whether it tears the clothes into strips or soaks them in oily water or just doesn't move at all when you switch on, or electrocutes the children when they go near it.