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DEFIBRILLATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they defibrillate ... he / she / it defibrillates
Past simple: defibrillated
Past participle: defibrillated
-ing form: defibrillating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks
Example:
The patient's heart had to be defibrillated to save his life
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "defibrillate" is one way to...):
reconstruct; restore (return to its original or usable and functioning condition)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
defibrillation (treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator))
defibrillator (an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation)
