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Electrocution is death or injury caused by an electric current passing through the body.
means Death or severe injury caused by electric shock passing through the body.
from A 19th-century American blend of 'electro-' and 'execution,' coined specifically around the arrival of the electric chair as a method of capital punishment — the word was built to name a new kind of death the moment the technology to produce it existed.
- name origin
- blend of electro and execution, coined for the electric chair
- the irony
- low voltage can kill, high voltage sometimes just burns
- real killer
- current stopping your heart's rhythm, not the burn