irradiate
verb /ɪˈreɪdieɪt/
/ɪˈreɪdieɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they irradiate | /ɪˈreɪdieɪt/ /ɪˈreɪdieɪt/ |
| he / she / it irradiates | /ɪˈreɪdieɪts/ /ɪˈreɪdieɪts/ |
| past simple irradiated | /ɪˈreɪdieɪtɪd/ /ɪˈreɪdieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle irradiated | /ɪˈreɪdieɪtɪd/ /ɪˈreɪdieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form irradiating | /ɪˈreɪdieɪtɪŋ/ /ɪˈreɪdieɪtɪŋ/ |
- irradiate somebody/something to expose somebody/something to radiation
- irradiate something (specialist) to treat food with gamma radiation in order to preserve it
- irradiate something (with something) (literary) to make something look brighter and happier
- faces irradiated with joy
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘emit rays, shine upon’): from Latin irradiat- ‘shone upon’, from the verb irradiare, from in- ‘upon’ + radiare ‘to shine’ (from radius ‘ray’).