electroshock

[ ih-lek-truh-shok ]
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verb (used with object)
  1. Psychiatry. to administer electroconvulsive therapy to.

  2. to pass an electric current through.

Origin of electroshock

1
First recorded in 1940–45; electro- + shock1

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