Usually means: Restoring normal heartbeat with electricity.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word defibrillating:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. defibrillating: Merriam-Webster
  2. defibrillating: Vocabulary.com
  3. defibrillating: Wordnik
  4. defibrillating: Wiktionary
  5. defibrillating: Dictionary.com
  6. defibrillating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defibrillating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. defibrillating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. defibrillating: Medical dictionary

(Note: See defibrillate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (defibrillate)

verb:  (cardiology, transitive) To stop the fibrillation of the heart in order to restore normal contractions, especially by the use of an electric shock.
▸ Also see defibrillate


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