electrocute
verb [usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they electrocute | |
| he / she / it electrocutes | |
| past simple electrocuted | |
| past participle electrocuted | |
| -ing form electrocuting |
to injure or kill somebody by passing electricity through their body 使触电受伤（或死亡）；用电刑处死 - be electrocuted
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。
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from electro-, on the pattern of execute.- be electrocuted