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S: (v) electrocute (kill by electric shock) "She dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub and was instantly electrocuted"

S: (v) kill (cause the death of, without intention) "She was killed in the collision of three cars"

W: (v) electrocute (kill by electric shock) "She dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub and was instantly electrocuted"

S: (n) deathblow, coup de grace (the blow that kills (usually mercifully))
S: (n) death (the act of killing) "he had two deaths on his conscience"
S: (n) euthanasia, mercy killing (the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness))
S: (n) homicide (the killing of a human being by another human being)
S: (n) dispatch, despatch (killing a person or animal)
S: (n) fell (the act of felling something (as a tree))
S: (n) suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation (the act of killing yourself) "it is a crime to commit suicide"
S: (n) slaughter (the killing of animals (as for food))
S: (n) poisoning (the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill)
S: (n) suffocation, asphyxiation (killing by depriving of oxygen)
S: (n) sacrifice, ritual killing (the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity)
S: (n) electrocution (killing by electric shock)
S: (n) decapitation, beheading (killing by cutting off the head)
S: (n) genocide, race murder, racial extermination (systematic killing of a racial or cultural group)

S: (v) electrocute, fry (kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair) "The serial killer was electrocuted"