fibrillating
English
editEtymology
editFrom fibrillate + -ing.
Verb
editfibrillating
- present participle and gerund of fibrillate
Adjective
editfibrillating (comparative more fibrillating, superlative most fibrillating)
- Splitting into fibrils or fibres.
- Of a muscle, especially in the heart: undergoing fibrillation; quivering.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 107:
- A publicity plane flew along the Croisette, its pennant fluttering like the trace of a fibrillating heart, unnoticed by the sunbathers stretched in their loungers in the hotel concessions.