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défibriller

French, verb/de.fi.bʁi.le/

défibriller is a French verb meaning “to defibrillate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Traiter la fibrillation ventriculaire en envoyant au cœur des chocs électriques”.

What does défibriller mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to defibrillate

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Traiter la fibrillation ventriculaire en envoyant au cœur des chocs électriques.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of défibriller

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • défibrillant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • défibrillé participle past
  • défibrille first-person indicative present
  • défibrilles indicative present second-person
  • défibrillons first-person indicative plural
  • défibrillez indicative plural present
  • défibrillent indicative plural present
  • défibrillais first-person imperfect indicative
  • défibrillait imperfect indicative singular
  • défibrillions first-person imperfect indicative
  • défibrilliez imperfect indicative plural
  • défibrillaient imperfect indicative plural
  • défibrillai first-person historic indicative
  • défibrillas historic indicative past
  • défibrilla historic indicative past
  • défibrillâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce défibriller?

  • /de.fi.bʁi.le/
  • \de.fi.bʁi.je\
  • \de.fi.bʁi.le\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to défibriller

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is défibriller in French?

défibriller appears about once in every 52 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).