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Electric Chair

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Noun

1. chair, death chair, electric chair, hot seat

an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person

Example Sentences:
'the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Electric Chair

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noun (in the US)
the electric chair

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Electric Chair

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1. 
an apparatus in the form of a chair, used in electrocuting persons sentenced to death
2. 
the death sentence by electrocution

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Electric Chair

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n.
1. 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.
2. Execution by means of such a device.
3. The sentence of death by means of such a device.

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