Definition

1. Verb:
   • To kill or execute by electricity: To cause death through the passage of a powerful electric current through the body, often as a method of capital punishment.
   • To injure severely or kill by electric shock: To cause fatal injury through accidental contact with a source of electricity.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • The state used to electrocute prisoners convicted of capital crimes.
  • The faulty appliance electrocuted the repair technician instantly.
  • He was nearly electrocuted when the power line fell onto his car.

Advanced Usage

• "to be electrocuted": This phrase is commonly used in the passive voice to describe the victim of an electrical accident or execution.
  • Workers must follow safety protocols to avoid being electrocuted.
• The term often implies a fatal outcome, though in informal contexts it is sometimes used to describe a severe, non-fatal shock.

Variants and Related Words

• Electrocution (noun): The act or process of killing or executing by electricity; death caused by electric shock.
  • The electrocution was carried out at midnight.
  • The cause of death was accidental electrocution.

Synonyms

• Execute (by electricity): To carry out a death sentence using an electric current.
• Shock fatally: To cause death by an electrical discharge.

Related Phrases

• Electrocution hazard: A situation or object that poses a risk of causing death by electric shock.
  • Exposed wires are a serious electrocution hazard.

Verb

1. kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
   • The serial killer was electrocuted
2. kill by electric shock
   • She dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub and was instantly electrocuted