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Related topics: Electricity, Medicinee·lec·tro·cute /ɪˈlektrəkjuːt/ verb [transitive usually passive] 1 TPEM British English if someone is electrocuted, they are injured or killed by electricity passing through their body 使触电受伤[身亡] Last week a housewife was electrocuted by her washing machine. 上周有个家庭主妇被洗衣机电死了。2. to kill someone using electricity 用电刑处死n Grammar Electrocute is usually passive. —electrocution /ɪˌlektrəˈkjuːʃən/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuselectrocute• One day a cable shorted and they were electrocuted.• He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron.• Animation is fair, but the scene where the dragon flies into a storm cloud and is electrocuted is positively brain-bending!Origin electrocute (1800-1900) electro- + executee·lec·tro·cute verb →n GRAMMAR1LDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable someone is Corpus if electrocuted, they are |