I think axiom should fit, but according to its official definition, an axiom is a statement that is taken to be true, and as far as I know, a word can’t make an statement by its own.

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      Well, it certainly did, and that is the way I use it. I have heard people use it in other ways

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        From the Oxford English Dictionary.

        Electrocute (verb)

        to injure or kill someone by passing electricity through their body