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Electrocute

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frynoun(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.

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fryverb(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
electricuteverbMisspelling of electrocute. [(transitive) To kill by electric shock.]
shocknounA sudden, heavy impact.
electrocauterizeverbTo cauterize with electricity (a surgical technique).
electroshocknoun(medicine) Electroconvulsive therapy.
electrostunverbTo stun (animals) by means of electricity
groundnounThe surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
galvanizeverb(figurative) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.
executeverb(transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
light upverb(transitive) To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
cooknoun(cooking) A person who prepares food.
killverb(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
cut to the quickverb(transitive, figuratively) To hurt a person deeply, especially emotionally.
ride the lightningverb(slang) To be executed by electric chair; to go to the chair.
tasernounA Taser, a handheld device made by Taser International intended to immobilize another by delivering an electric shock.
footshocknoun(biology) A mild electric shock administered to the feet of laboratory animals during a variety of psychological and other experiments
give someone the chairverb(chiefly US, idiomatic) To sentence a person to execution by means of the electric chair.
tasenounAn electric shock administered with a taser.
cauterizeverbTo burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.
terminate with extreme prejudiceverb(euphemistic, US) To murder; to assassinate.

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