Crossword clues for electrocute
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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. Electric chair is also first recorded 1889, the year the one used on Kemmler was introduced in New York as a humane alternative to hanging. Related: Electrocuted; electrocuting.
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
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]
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/ electroclash music scene happening in Berlin at the time.
After releasing one EP and one LP on the now defunct Emperor Norton records, Mia left the band and Nicole continued touring, hiring "Holly Doll", from Johnson City, Tennessee, to fill in. The two toured extensively throughout Europe, America, and Australia where they played the Big Day Out festival in 2005 and met Mindy, a.k.a. "Legs Le Brock" (who is from Sydney, Australia), who was DJ'ing an afterparty.
Morier eventually moved to Los Angeles and temporarily disbanded the project to pursue her songwriting career. She recently has had a song she co-wrote with Freescha, featured on the Britney Spears album Blackout entitled "Heaven on Earth". It was during that time that she met up once again with Legs Le Brock who had also recently relocated to LA. The two began doing DJ nights and when Nicole was asked by Mexican arts and culture magazine Celeste to tour in Mexico with Electrocute, she invited Legs to join her.
The two have since done a tour in Europe, returned to Mexico several times and played the Infest in Santiago, Chile. They also have incorporated three other members into their live act that include Bram Inscore (keys and samples), Barbara Gruska (drums), and John Kirby (keys).
Their song "Kleiner dicker Junge" was prominently featured in the 2005 film The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
Recently, they released the EP "On The Beat" featuring the Dutch artist Junkie XL.
Their new album "Double Diamond" was exclusively released in Japan during the Summer of 2009. It features all the tracks from the "On The Beat" EP as well as six brand new tracks (and three instrumentals to round out the track list).
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.