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Definition: Electroshock |
ElectroshockNoun1. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Induction of a stress reaction in experimental subjects by means of an electrical shock; applies to either convulsive or non-convulsive states. (references) |
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Synonyms: ElectroshockSynonyms: electroconvulsive therapy (n), electroshock therapy (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Electroshock |
| Specialty definitions using "electroshock": Flurothyl ♦ Neuromuscular Blocking Agents, Neuromuscular Nondepolarizing Agents. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | No, you're not because I'm out there and if I see you out there, there's not enough voltage in the universe to electroshock me back into coherence (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Georgia | He was tortured severely by electroshock. (references) |
Belarus | The police also threatened to subject the boy to electroshock and denied him food. (references) | |
Portugal | A police officer who used electroshock torture in Sintra in 1999 was fired from the force, and a criminal case against him was ongoing at year's end. (references) | |
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| "Electroshock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Electroshock" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "electroshock": electroshock therapy ♦ electroshock treatment. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
electroshock therapy | 40 |
electroshock | 35 |
electroshock treatment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "electroshock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | علاج بصدمة. (various references) | |
French | électrochoc. (various references) | |
Hungarian | elektrosokk (shock therapy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | electroshockay.(various references) | |
Romanian | electronarcozã (electroshock therapy). (various references) | |
Spanish | electrochoque. (various references) | |
Swedish | elchock (electric shock). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | електрошок. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "electroshock": electroshocks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "electroshock" (pronounced ule"ktrō'shÄ'k) |
| 3 | -sh Ä' k | aftershock. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-h-k-l-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: cerecloths. | |
-3 letters: cerecloth, cockerels, cockhorse, reclothes. | |
-4 letters: checkers, cheroots, chortles, clockers, cockerel, coerects, corselet, creosote, crochets, crockets, crotches, electors, electros, hecklers, hooklets, hosteler, rechecks, rechoose, reclothe, reschool, resketch, scrootch, selector, sherlock, sketcher, trochees. | |
-5 letters: checker, cheeros, cheroot, chokers, cholers, chooser, chortle, cloches, clocker, clothes, cockers, cockles, coerces, coerect, coheres, cohorts, colters, cooches, cookers, coolers. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-h-k-l-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: electroshocks. | |
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