Crossword clues for irradiate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
irradiate \ir*ra"di*ate\, v. i. To emit rays; to shine.
irradiate \ir*ra"di*ate\ ([i^]r*r[=a]"d[i^]*[asl]t), a. [L.
irradiatus, p. p.]
Illuminated; irradiated.
--Mason.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "to cast beams of light upon," from Latin irradiatus, past participle of irradiare "shine forth," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (see in- (2)) + radiare "to shine" (see radiate). Meaning "expose to radiation other than light" (originally X-rays) is from 1901. Related: Irradiated; irradiating.
Wiktionary
illuminate; irradiated; made brilliant or splendid. v
1 (context transitive English) To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster. 2 (context transitive English) To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate. 3 (context transitive English) To animate by heat or light. 4 (context transitive English) To radiate, shed, or diffuse. 5 (context intransitive English) To emit rays; to shine. 6 (context transitive English) To treat (food) with ionizing radiation in order to destroy bacteria
WordNet
Usage examples of "irradiate".
And she herself had hushed the grieving quiver of his lip, and quickly filled his dimpled hands with flowers to win the farewell caress of that dancing smile which irradiated his face like an April sunbeam, parting the pink lips over a vision of pearly infant teeth.
Why live in isolated settlements built on dead, irradiated earth when you can modify yourself to enjoy the freedom of the whole world?
Purple and yellow vectors slithered through his head, temporarily displacing his view of the irradiated dust.
That meant that the plankton themselves were irradiated, a speculation that Medusa would soon attempt to resolve with greater clarity.
A smile of pleasure irradiated the countenance of the chief:--that he whom he had supposed to be a dangerous rival, should thus publicly forego any claim to the affections of Megalena, was indeed pleasure.
Then they tested the irradiated and then frozen food on human volunteers.
We first irradiated a sample at three mega rads then another sample at six mega rads and tested the animals over a period of six months to see whether radiation became concentrated in any of their organs or bones.
He paused, letting the dramatic effect of what he was going to say sink in while we were sinking our teeth into the irradiated foods that resulted from the years of experimentation throughout the 1950s.
One possible explanation: Freshly fallen snows of nitrogen, methane, and other hydrocarbons are irradiated by solar ultraviolet light and by electrons trapped in the magnetic field of Neptune, through which Triton plows.
I discovered that my friends had been busy while I was zonked out and afloat, getting my irradiated DNA put back together.
In 2226 they had sponsored preliminary research on the creation of a new Homo subspecies capable of surviving on certain heavily irradiated, notoriously inhospitable R-class planets deep within the galactic hub.
Compassion and generosity, so great that they comprehended love itself and excelled its highest type, irradiated the whole being of the fat man exposed to the gaze of his inferiors.
Tall, carbon-gas streetlights irradiated the Gremlin, whose bright green color now looked even more acid than ever.
The very first glance at the idea, irradiation, forces us to the entertainment of the hitherto unseparated and seemingly inseparable idea of agglomeration about a centre, with dispersion as we recede from it--the idea, in a word, of inequability of distribution in respect to the matter irradiated.
The river still ran and had an innocent tinfoil gleam, but Hooper said that the river had carried tons of irradiated slush out of the caves and floated it forth.