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electroshock

noun as in electric shock therapy

noun as in electroconvulsive therapy

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No more weird scenes where counselors hook people up to electroshock machines and show them what looks like images you’d pull off screensavers dot com if you searched “muscle man.”

One is accused of assaulting Fanone with an electroshock weapon, one is charged with trying to steal his firearm and a third is accused of taking his badge and radio.

There was his teenage electroshock therapy, for one thing (it failed to cure his bisexuality—go figure).

Beth Dawes (Alexis Bledel) underwent electroshock therapy to cast off the gray clouds surrounding her.

He wasn't interested in talking about the electroshock or waterboarding he was subjected to in prison.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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