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Meanings of electrocute in English

Portuguese
electrocutar
Catalan
electrocutar
Spanish
electrocutar

Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair.

electrocutar
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Examples for "fry"
Examples for "fry"
1
The message is clear: Nunavut is not the place for small fry.
Reuters
2
Season and slice red fish; roll in flour and fry until brown.
365 Foreign Dishes / A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year
3
Dip in milk then in seasoned flour, and fry in hot fat.
How to Cook Fish
4
Dip in egg, roll in crumbs and fry in smoking hot fat.
365 Luncheon Dishes: A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year
5
Roll the cleaned fish in seasoned flour and fry in deep fat.
How to Cook Fish
Usage of electrocute in English
1
Maybe he'll electrocute himself, I think, which would solve my tenant problem.
Back on murder
2
X Someone who has just been struck will electrocute you if touched.
Climbing Magazine
3
Others pull down power lines and try to electrocute the animals.
The Guardian
4
Most it's gonna do is electrocute you, maybe set fire to the building.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
5
He won't permit us either to hang or to electrocute him, my dear.
Beverly of Graustark
6
Oh, I must get away, or they will hang me, or electrocute me!
The Mansion of Mystery / Being a Certain Case of Importance, Tak...
7
Almost every week, editorialists at high-profile joints electrocute Twitter with a new your-liberal-views-are-vulgar sally.
Wired
8
Edna Kenny reaffirms his intention to electrocute the Irish people.
The Irish Times
9
Yes, they proved it, and I must-must -Willthey hang me or electrocute me?
The Mansion of Mystery / Being a Certain Case of Importance, Tak...
10
Of course we're not going to electrocute him, Eddie.
From hell with love
11
Quinn realized he was probably sitting in the same chair used to electrocute Paul Donaldson.
By reason of insanity
12
She had a button that could electrocute the council.
I shot you babe
13
They are going to hang me, or electrocute me!
The Mansion of Mystery / Being a Certain Case of Importance, Tak...
14
Rob's storage batteries are not powerful enough to electrocute one or set the house on fire.
The Master Key / An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Myste...
15
They'll try to make somebody electrocute themselves.
Sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs
16
He'd recently passed the 25 million-mile mark, and had generated enough power to electrocute every prisoner in Nevada.
Raising Stony Mayhall
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Electrocute through the time