transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪlektrəkju:t ]
( electrocutes, electrocuting, electrocuted)
1.
If someone is electrocuted , they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity.
Three people were electrocuted by falling power-lines...
He accidentally electrocuted himself.
VERB : be V-ed , V pron-refl
2.
If a criminal is electrocuted , he or she is executed using electricity.
He was electrocuted for a murder committed when he was 17.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
• elec‧tro‧cu‧tion
(electrocutions)
The court sentenced him to death by electrocution.
N-VAR