The word electrocute?

Question

If somebody is electrocuted, by definition does it mean that they died from the incident? Or can you be electrocuted and still live. PROVIDE BACKUP! I don't want opinions because I have one of those. I just want to know if there's a FACT out there.

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Answer 1

The word is only used when a shock results in death.

Answer 2

Well by fact! Some live and some die. Sometimes High Voltage not have the amperage to kill a person, but, it can actually throw a person a long ways, so, they may die from the fall and not electrocution. House voltage operate at 60 Hz which is 60 cycles per second. This more in tune with the heart and the amperage is higher as the Voltage is dropped down to the house voltage. Usually anything over 1 amp can kill. But, this is debatable. I have been electrocuted with house voltage many time and I am alive. Take a 9 volt battery like you use in remote controls and such. It have the two +/- on top and stick it to your tongue. You just electrocuted your tongue and lived.
As we can see from the answers. By definition eletrocute is to kill, but, many of us seem to differ as to how the word is used.

Answer 3

An electric shock can occur upon contact of a human or animal body with any source of voltage high enough to cause sufficient current flow through the muscles or nerves. The minimum detectable current in humans is thought to be about 1 milliampere (mA). The current may cause tissue damage or heart fibrillation if it is sufficiently high. When (and only when) an electric shock is fatal, it is called electrocution.

Answer 4

To "electrocute" is to introduce electricity into a volume. To electrocute an individual does not mean death. It simply means that, that was the means by which a particular form of punishment, or energy, was administered. If, by the administration of electricity, an individual was deprived of life, you can term it, that they "died of electrocution".
If you lived after the administration of electricity, it would be termed that you were electrocuted. Thus, you had electricity run through you, but no death occured.
This does not specifically have anything to do with punishment, since any of these terms could apply to any employee of an Electrical company, or any one who has contact with electricity, in general.

Answer 5

This all depends on what you mean by electrocuted? Do you mean like criminals in the electric chair? Or someone electrocuted by electricity. I know for a fact that one can be electrocuted by electricity and live. My Dad use to be a lineman, he worked on power lines. He was electrocuted and lived. It knocked him out and he was hospitalized, but he was fine. I think another thing has to do with voltage.

Answer 6

Electrocution means that the person died from the incident.

Electrocute:
1. To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire.
2. To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.

I never knew that, you learn something new everyday!

Answer 7

the scientific definition of electrocution is

6 miliamps of electricity passing through the heart.

you can survive this but it is very rare, and usually only occurs when a defibrillator is used within 1 minute.

Answer 8

Fact I worked with a young lady that was a Civil Engineer until she was electrocuted. Knocked her on her butt and according to her HURT LIKE HECK. She was cross trained into my career field in the Air Force. Not sure if the curls in her hair where natural but they looked good. She was fixing or testing a facility backup generator when the mishap occurred. I don't know the medical specifics but the medical professionals made her move to a different career field.

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Answer 9

e‧lec‧tro‧cute  /ɪˈlɛktrəˌkyut/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-lek-truh-kyoot] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object), -cut‧ed, -cut‧ing.
1.to kill by electricity.
2.to execute (a criminal) by electricity, as in an electric chair.
[Origin: 1885–90, American; electro- + (exe)cute]

—Related forms
e‧lec‧tro‧cu‧tion, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Answer 10

electrocute (transitive verb) 1. injure or kill with electric shock. to cause injury or death with an electric shock

Looks like it can go either way. I always took it to be death. Looks like I was wrong.

Answer 11

Electrocute is defined "to kill, using electricity". I believe the word is a combination of 'electricity' and 'execute'. So technically, yes. If you die, you were electrocuted. If you live, you were merely shocked.