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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.
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Origin of electroshock1
Example Sentences
It almost immediately emerged in media reports that Mr Eagleton had received electroshock treatment in hospital for clinical depression a decade earlier.
Hermes skillfully twines together the many strands of Reed’s singular life — a benumbing suburban childhood, electroshock therapy, heroin addiction and artistic flowering at the feet of Schwartz and the Beats.
Axon Enterprise, the Arizona-based technology and weapons manufacturer formerly known as Taser International, is reportedly researching proposals to develop a robot equipped with its well-known electroshock weapon.
She rejected the charges as trumped up and said during her closed-door trial that police used an electroshock weapon on her during her arrest.
City leaders hope the opposite can be true as well, that the commerce giant’s return-to-office policy — which has drawn protests and walkouts by employees — might deliver an electroshock to the city’s downtown.
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