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Electric chair   Listen
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electric chair  n.  A device used for execution of criminals, consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current of electricity through the body. This method of killing is called electrocution.
Synonyms: the chair, death chair, hot seat.






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"Electric chair" Quotes from Famous Books



... at last, Elaine sank down into a deep library chair and stared straight ahead. She saw visions of arrest and trial, of the terrible electric chair with herself in it, bound, and of the giving of the fatal signal ...
— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve

... awful responsibility under which he labored; the overwhelming and damning evidence against his client; the terrible consequences of the least mistake that he might make; the fact that only the sword of his ability, and his alone, stood between Angelo and a hideous death by fire in the electric chair—sobered and chastened him. Had he been a praying man in that moment he would ...
— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train



Words linked to "Electric chair" :   chair, hot seat



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