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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire.
  2. v. To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See electricute, electricution.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To cause death from immediate complications resulting from electric shock.
  2. v. informal To inflict a severe electric shock, not necessarily fatally.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To execute or put to death by electricity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. kill by electric shock
  2. v. kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

Etymologies

  1. electro- +‎ (exe)cute (Wiktionary)
  2. electro- + (exe)cute. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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