- an apparatus in the form of a chair, used in electrocuting persons sentenced to death
- the death sentence by electrocution
electric chair
electric chair electric chair
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electric chair
noun
- A device used in the electrocution of a person sentenced to death, consisting of a chair in which the person is restrained and a means of applying a lethal electrical current to the body.
- Execution by means of such a device.
- The sentence of death by means of such a device.
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Noun
(plural electric chairs)
- A device used for performing execution by electrocution.
- An electrically powered wheelchair
Noun
- attributive form of electric chair
- electric-chair efficacy
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WORDS NEAR electric chair IN THE DICTIONARY
- electric chair
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- electric-charge