electrocution

Noun

 * 1) The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.
 * 2) Deliberate execution by electric shock, usually involving an electric chair.
 * 3)  A severe electric shock, whether fatal or not.

Usage notes
Formally, the words electrocution and electrocute imply fatality (and originally referred specifically to judicial execution, although the latter distinction has fallen out of use). Informally, however, these terms are sometimes used to refer to serious but nonfatal electric shocks. Preferred usage is to normally reserve electrocution for fatal electric shocks, and to use shock or electric shock for nonfatal ones.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: sähkökuolema
 * French:
 * German: Tod durch Stromschlag, Tod infolge elektrischen Schlags
 * Greek:
 * Italian: elettrocuzione,
 * Japanese: 感電死
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: сме́рть от электри́ческого то́ка, смерте́льная электротра́вма
 * Spanish: electrocución


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: sähköteloitus
 * French:
 * German: Hinrichtung auf dem elektrischen Stuhl
 * Hungarian: villamosszékben való/történő kivégzés
 * Japanese: 電気椅子刑
 * Russian: казнь на электри́ческом сту́ле


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: porażenie prądem
 * Russian: пораже́ние (электри́ческим) то́ком, уда́р (электри́ческим) то́ком, электроглуше́ние