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electrotorture

electrotorture noun: torture involving electric shock.

Noun

electrotorture (uncountable)

  1. torture involving electric shock
    • And there's a long-established school of S/M, I discovered, where folks of all genders and orientations matriculate in piss play and electrotorture.2003, Simon H. Sheppard, Kinkorama: dispatches from the front lines of perversion, page 93
    • American and Argentinean police forces used electrotorture in the 1920s.2008, Laura L. Finley, The torture and prisoner abuse debate, page 29

Origin of electrotorture

From electro- + torture.

Questions about electrotorture

What does electrotorture mean?
Electrotorture means torture involving electric shock.
What part of speech is electrotorture?
Electrotorture is a noun.

Words near electrotorture in the dictionary

  1. electrotonizing
  2. electrotonous
  3. electrotonus
  4. electrotopological
  5. electrotopology
  6. electrotorture
  7. electrotransfect
  8. electrotransfected
  9. electrotransfection
  10. electrotransfections
  11. electrotransfer

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