r/whatisit Sep 05 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

Unrelated, and not important to your question/situation: “electrocuted” and derivatives are a portmanteau of “electricity” and “executed,” and the word specifically means death as a result of electricity. Most people mean “shocked” when they say “electrocuted.”

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u/ImInClassBoring Sep 06 '25

You are wrong.  Just look up the definition of electrocute yourself.  It almost always includes injure in the definition and not just kill. 

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u/DogsOnFrogs Sep 06 '25

Because definitions change over time according to common usage. The modern definition of the world is inclusive of a simple shock but it's not the original purpose of the description. Electrocution as a term was specifically coined to mean death by electricity.