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[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

Google and the Oxford dictionary disagree.

Definition of electrocution: injure or kill by electric shock

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 5 points 7 months ago

And Cambridge says it means to die from it.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I wonder if the origin of the word was a portmanteau of electricity and execute.

Execute to death, of course

[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Could be, but there's other words with that same ending

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

This is what I get for skipping Latin...

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