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FIBRILLATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they fibrillate ... he / she / it fibrillates
Past simple: fibrillated
Past participle: fibrillated
-ing form: fibrillating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements
Example:
His heart fibrillated and he died
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "fibrillate" is one way to...):
jerk; twitch (make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
fibrillation (muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination)
