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FIBRILLATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fibrillate mean?
• FIBRILLATE (verb)
The verb FIBRILLATE has 1 sense:
1. make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements
Familiarity information: FIBRILLATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they fibrillate ... he / she / it fibrillates
Past simple: fibrillated
Past participle: fibrillated
-ing form: fibrillating
... he / she / it fibrillates Past simple: fibrillated
Past participle: fibrillated
-ing form: fibrillating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context example:
His heart fibrillated and he died
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)
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