defibrillate

1. 1.

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

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

   Broaderrestore

Other forms of defibrillate

past tense

defibrillated·

present participle

defibrillating·

third person

defibrillates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about defibrillate

What does defibrillate mean?

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

How many syllables are in defibrillate?

defibrillate has 4 syllables: de-fi-bril-late. The stress falls on "fi".

Is defibrillate a common word?

defibrillate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.