electrocute

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e·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 table

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electrocute• 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- + execute

e·lec·tro·cute verb →n GRAMMAR1LDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable  

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electrocute
e‧lec‧tro‧cute /ɪˈlektrəkjuːt/ verb [transitive usually passive]1. British English if someone is electrocuted, they are injured or killed by electricity passing through their body:
    Last week a housewife was electrocuted by her washing machine.
2. to kill someone using electricity
—electrocution /ɪˌlektrəˈkjuːʃən/ noun [uncountable]

elec·tro·cuteBrE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːt/ 🔊NAmE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːt/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they electrocute BrE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːt/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːt/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it electrocutes BrE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːts/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːts/ 🔊past simple electrocuted BrE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːtɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːtɪd/ 🔊past participle electrocuted BrE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːtɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːtɪd/ 🔊 -ing form electrocuting BrE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːtɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪˈlektrəkjuːtɪŋ/ 🔊 [usually passive] ~ sb to injure or kill sb by passing electricity through their body 使触电受伤（或死亡）；用电刑处死◆The boy was electrocuted when he wandered onto a railway track. 那名男孩闲逛时踩到铁轨上触电死亡。🔊🔊◆He was electrocuted in Virginia in 2006 (= punished by being killed in the electric chair). 他于 2006 年在弗吉尼亚州被电刑处死。🔊🔊▸ elec·tro·cu·tion BrE /ɪˌlektrəˈkjuːʃn/ 🔊NAmE /ɪˌlektrəˈkjuːʃn/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] ◆Six people were drowned; five died from electrocution. 六人淹死，五人触电身亡。🔊🔊◆He was sentenced to death by electrocution. 他被判电刑处死。🔊🔊