Usually means: Death or injury by electricity.
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  1. electrocute: Merriam-Webster
  2. electrocute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. electrocute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. electrocute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. electrocute: Vocabulary.com
  6. Electrocute, electrocute: Wordnik
  7. electrocute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. electrocute: Wiktionary
  9. electrocute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. electrocute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. electrocute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. electrocute: Dictionary.com
  13. electrocute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. electrocute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ElectroCute (comics), Electrocute (band), Electrocute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Electrocute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. electrocute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. electrocute: Rhymezone
  19. Electrocute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. electrocute: FreeDictionary.org
  21. electrocute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. electrocute: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. electrocute: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. electrocute: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. electrocute: Legal dictionary

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  1. electrocute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. electrocute: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. electrocute: Medical dictionary

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  1. electrocute: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To kill by electric shock.
verb:  (transitive) To execute by electric shock, often by means of an electric chair.
verb:  (transitive, proscribed, informal) To inflict a severe electric shock (not necessarily fatal) upon.

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