| VERB | social | defibrillate | stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks |
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| Meaning | stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "The patient's heart had to be defibrillated to save his life" | |
| Broader | restore, reconstruct | Return to its original or usable and functioning condition |
| Spanish | desfibrilar | |
| Nouns | defibrillation | treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) |
| defibrillator | an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | |
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