ELECTROCUTES Synonyms

• strips of potato fried in deep fat

• a charred substance

• a human female employed to do housework

• any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus

• burn to charcoal

• burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

• excite suddenly and intensely

• charge (a conductor) with electricity

• equip for use with electricity

• a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)

• a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit

• the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally

• the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat

• a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body

• (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor

• an instance of agitation of the earth's crust

• an unpleasant or disappointing surprise

• a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field

• a bushy thick mass (especially hair)

• a sudden jarring impact

• a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses

• surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

• strike with disgust or revulsion

• strike with horror or terror

• collide violently

• collect or gather into shocks

• subject to electrical shocks

• inflict a trauma upon

• make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow

• hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag

• overcome as with astonishment or disbelief

• an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

• a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings

• cause a stinging or tingling sensation

• a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact

• strike suddenly and with force

• kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting

• strike at with firepower or bombs

• cook or heat in a microwave oven

• excite suddenly and intensely

• charge (a conductor) with electricity

• equip for use with electricity

• a young person of either sex

• English painter and art critic (1866-1934)

• English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)

• be excessively hot

• cook in hot fat or oil

• kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair