(~s, electrocuting, ~d)
1.
If someone is ~d, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity.
Three people were ~d by falling power-lines...
He accidentally ~d himself.
VERB: be V-ed, V pron-refl
2.
If a criminal is ~d, he or she is executed using electricity.
He was ~d for a murder committed when he was 17.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
electrocution (electrocutions)
The court sentenced him to death by electrocution.
N-VAR