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fibrillate

/ˈfʌɪbrɪleɪt/

fibrillate verb: to make rapid irregular movements.

Verb

fibrillate (third-person singular simple present fibrillates, present participle fibrillating, simple past and past participle fibrillated)

  1. (intransitive) To make rapid irregular movements.

Forms of fibrillate

third-person singular presentfibrillates
present participlefibrillating
past participlefibrillated
pastfibrillated

Origin of fibrillate

From fibrilla.

Words formed from fibrillate

Questions about fibrillate

What does fibrillate mean?
Fibrillate means to make rapid irregular movements.
What part of speech is fibrillate?
Fibrillate is a verb.
How do you pronounce fibrillate?
Fibrillate is pronounced /ˈfʌɪbrɪleɪt/.
What is the past tense of fibrillate?
The past tense of fibrillate is fibrillated.

Words near fibrillate in the dictionary

  1. fibrillar
  2. fibrillarin
  3. fibrillarins
  4. fibrillarity
  5. fibrillary
  6. fibrillate
  7. fibrillated
  8. fibrillates
  9. fibrillating
  10. fibrillation
  11. fibrillations

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