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fibrillate

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

verb (used with object)

, fi·bril·lat·ed, fi·bril·lat·ing.
  1. to cause to undergo fibrillation.


verb (used without object)

, fi·bril·lat·ed, fi·bril·lat·ing.
  1. to undergo fibrillation.
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Other Words From

  • fibril·lative adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fibrillate1

First recorded in 1830–40; fibrill(a) + -ate 1
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Example Sentences

His heart was beating in the 140s, its upper chambers fibrillating.

It was not beating, but it was fibrillating.

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

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

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

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