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Answer for the clue "Kill in electric chair ", 11 letters:
electrocute

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Word definitions for electrocute in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"execute by electricity," 1889, American English, from electro- + back half of execute . The method first was used Aug. 6, 1890, in New York state, on William Kemmler, convicted of the murder of his common-law wife. In reference to accidental death by 1909. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Animation is fair, but the scene where the dragon flies into a storm cloud and is electrocuted is positively brain-bending! ▪ He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Electrocute \E*lec"tro*cute`\, v. t. [Electro- + cute in execute.] To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion , n.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Electrocute is a Los Angeles -based electronic rock band. Nicole Morier , from Albuquerque New Mexico , United States, founded the band with former member "Mia Dime" in Berlin , Germany in 2002. The formation was motivated by the explosive electropop / ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause death from immediate complications resulting from electric shock. 2 (context informal English) To inflict a severe electric shock, not necessarily fatally.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. kill by electric shock; "She dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub and was instantly electrocuted" kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair; "The serial killer was electrocuted" [syn: fry ]

Usage examples of electrocute.

If he could have worked up the strength to electrocute him, he would have.

It would not do to have their subject electrocute himself along the internal pathways of his own targeting system.

It was inconceivable to The Shadow that a coal from a grate could electrocute a man.

In other words, the handyman had electrically grounded the machine the wrong way, ensuring that if he touched both the exterior metal case of the dishwasher, and something else that was metal or conductive, he would complete an electrical circuit through his own body and electrocute himself.

Instead of being electrocuted, I was just knocked unconscious and brought here.

All you did today was get electrocuted and travel thirty-two years into the future.

Do you think I lied to you about being electrocuted and traveling through time?

It was not a particularly high current that electrocuted him, just the standard current alternating at sixty cycles per second.

He sniffled in solidarity with Elizu Roote as they passed another cluster of electrocuted corpses.

And with the glass face activated, Rachel would probably be electrocuted, too.

We saw photos of people who had been shot, stabbed, run over, hanged, electrocuted, burned, and drowned, or who had fallen from heights or been beaten to death.

We went back to the apartment building and, sure enough, found that all of the other recently installed dishwashers had been wired in the same dangerously wrong way, and if they were left that way, they could have eventually electrocuted the tenants.

If I could give you a real hug, with-out electrocuting you or making a pass at you, I would.

It absorbed the energy of the Meissner field, electrocuting the parishioners from the inside out.

How the cat in the experiment had vanished and the professors at his university had designed and constructed a spacetime machine using the anomalies in the universal continuum to get around Time's Arrow but then somebody had pushed the wrong button when Neils and himself had gone out down to the Mexican take-aways so that the entire faculty had disappeared into another universe and then the riot squad had arrived and interrogated himself and the rabbit and then made him go after the cat by himself and how had he arrived at Earth to capture the cat and take it back for trial on his planet but he had missed it when the man in the wardrobe wearing the lab coat and Stetson wouldn't talk to him so he accidently vaporized the kitchen and fallen through in the fish tank and gotten electrocuted while standing on the pot plant and decided in the end to open the beer with his hands and not his head.