DEFIBRILLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does defibrillate mean? 

• DEFIBRILLATE (verb)
  The verb DEFIBRILLATE has 1 sense:

1. stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks

  Familiarity information: DEFIBRILLATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFIBRILLATE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

The patient's heart had to be defibrillated to save his life

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)