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electroshock
[ ih-lek-truh-shok ]
verb (used with object)
- Psychiatry. to administer electroconvulsive therapy to.
- to pass an electric current through.
Word History and Origins
Origin of electroshock1
Example Sentences
No more weird scenes where counselors hook people up to electroshock machines and show them what looks like images you’d pull off screensavers dot com if you searched “muscle man.”
One is accused of assaulting Fanone with an electroshock weapon, one is charged with trying to steal his firearm and a third is accused of taking his badge and radio.
There was his teenage electroshock therapy, for one thing (it failed to cure his bisexuality—go figure).
Beth Dawes (Alexis Bledel) underwent electroshock therapy to cast off the gray clouds surrounding her.
He wasn't interested in talking about the electroshock or waterboarding he was subjected to in prison.
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