FIBRILLATE

fibrillate

(verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements; “His heart fibrillated and he died”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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

(intransitive) To make rapid irregular movements.

Source: Wiktionary



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CARE

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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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