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has gloss | (noun) the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture; "they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks" electric shock |
lexicalization | eng: electric shock |
subclass of | (noun) the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime corporal punishment |
subclass of | (noun) the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" torturing, torture |
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