[VN] [usuallypassive] to injure or kill sb by passing electricity through their body:
The boy was electrocuted when he wandered onto a railway track. * James Roach was electrocuted in South Carolina in 1986 (= punished by being killed on the electric chair).
electrocution noun [U]:
Six people were drowned; five died from electrocution. * He was sentenced to death by electrocution.
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