defibrillate
verb
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- noun
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- adjective
- adverb
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Sense 1 verb
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
Types & categories
- restore hypernym
Related & opposite
- defibrillation derivation
- defibrillator derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | defibrillation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | defibrillator |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | restore |