electrocute

Universal Words verb [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.