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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
defibrillate is a verb meaning "stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for defibrillate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.