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fibrillate

[ fahy-bruh-leyt, fib-ruh- ]

verb (used with object)

fibrillated, fibrillating.
  1. to cause to undergo fibrillation.


verb (used without object)

fibrillated, fibrillating.
  1. to undergo fibrillation.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ھb·t adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fibrillate1

First recorded in 1830–40; fibrill(a) + -ate 1
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His heart was beating in the 140s, its upper chambers fibrillating.

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It was not beating, but it was fibrillating.

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My wife stopped taking 1.2 grams of fish oil daily and stopped fibrillating.

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Once liberated, I hit Water Street and from there it was a straight trajectory to the fibrillating heart of town.

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The coroner said his heart, fibrillating, stopped pumping blood to his organs, starving his brain of oxygen.

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