Electrocute vs Electrocutioner - What's the difference?
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To cause death from immediate complications resulting from electric shock.
(informal) To inflict a severe electric shock, not necessarily fatally.
a person who carries out an execution by means of electricity
* U.S. Supreme Court: STATE OF LA. EX REL. FRANCIS v. RESWEBER, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) 329 U.S. 459 STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. FRANCIS v. RESWEBER, sheriff, et al. No. 142.
Electrocute is a related term of electrocutioner.
As a verb electrocute
is to cause death from immediate complications resulting from electric shock.As a noun electrocutioner is
a person who carries out an execution by means of electricity.electrocute
English
Verb
(electrocut)- He was electrocuted for his crimes.
Usage notes
Formally, the words electrocute'' and ''electrocution'' always imply fatality. Informally, however, these terms are rather often used to refer to serious but nonfatal electric shocks. Strictly correct usage is to reserve ''electrocute'' and ''electrocution'' for fatal electric shocks, and to use ''shock'' or ''electric shock for nonfatal ones.electrocutioner
English
Noun
(en noun)- 'Then the electrocutioner turned on the switch and when he did Willie Francis' lips puffed out and he groaned and jumped so that the chair came off the floor. Apparently the switch was turned on twice and then the condemned man yelled: 'Take it off. Let me breath." Affidavit of official witness Harold Resweber, dated May 23, 1946.
