Comment on How do you call a word that is so rudimentary that it can't be defined without being redundant?
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 10 months agoFrom the Oxford English Dictionary.
Electrocute (verb)
to injure or kill someone by passing electricity through their body
Toast@lemmy.film 10 months ago
I am saying that the word had a particular meaning when it was coined. Many people seem to use it for other things, and the dictionary reflects this. It seems odd to mean that a word that is almost nakedly a combination of electricity and execute is used to not mean killed by electricity, but it is the case
I’m not really sure what your objection is to what I’ve said.