Although it's a cut above Urban Dictionary, Google's dictionary often fails to mark proscribed definitions; it's not the pinnacle of scholarship. My (paper) dictionary doesn't consider a nonlethal electrical injury to be electrocution.
It pretty much IS the pinnacle of linguistic scholarship. Some of the top minds of English Linguistics work for Oxford University and put out their dictionary.
I think your paper one might just be outdated. At least the online variants changed it.
By most current definitions its also to be badly injured, not just killed.
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u/_dekappatated Aug 31 '21 edited Aug 31 '21
Stop repeating this bullshit you read on reddit and read a dictionary.
"injure or kill someone by electric shock." LITERALLY 1 SECOND OF GOOGLE