irradiate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
technology
Etymology: From Middle English irradiate (“illuminated, shining”) (more at etymology 1), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: irradiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: irradiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: irradiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: irradiated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: irradiate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: irradiate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: irradiated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: irradiate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: irradiatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: irradiated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: irradiatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: irradiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: irradiateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: irradiated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: irradiate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: irradiated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: irradiate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: irradiated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: irradiate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: irradiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: irradiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To send out (heat, light, or some other form of radiation) in the form of rays; to radiate.
pos: verb
tags: literary
poetic
transitive
gloss: To make (someone or something) bright by shining light on them or it; to brighten, to illuminate.
pos: verb
tags: literary
often
poetic
transitive
examples: Such vvere thy gifts, Pedmálá, ſuch thy povv'r! / For, vvhen thy smile irradiates yon blue fields, / Obſervant Indra ſends the genial ſhovv'r.
Thou cheerful light of day! […] thou ſplendid luminary of Natur! thou no longer irradiateſt my eyes or exhilarateſt my ſoul! The ſeaſons ſtill follovv each other, and year ſucceeds to year; but to me day no more returns.
Who hath watched / The midnight lightnings of the summer storm, / That, with their aweful blaze, irradiate heaven, / Then leave a blacker night?
He saw her image in the blight and blackness all around him, not irradiating but deepening the gloom.
Hail, all hail, O sun, that suscitates and circumscribes life; hail, O fountain of life and death! […] At times, a little cloud, emanation of terrestrial vapor, shadowed those vaults destined to thee alone, and thou irradiatedst it with such splendor, that it seemed the brow of innocence; but it blackened as ingratitude, and waged war against thy rays.
Oh Thou, whose Spirit through this universe / In which Thou dost involve thyself diffused, / Shall so perchance irradiate human clay / That men, suddenly dazzled, lose themselves / In ecstacy^([sic – meaning ecstasy]) before a mortal shrine / Whose Light is but a Shade of the Divine; […]
gloss: To apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: literary
poetic
transitive
examples: An inherent protection in labeling of the shipping containers will be the prevention of irradiating the commodity again, insuring that the produce has been treated within the safety limits established by the FDA [Food and Drug Administration].
gloss: To apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: literary
poetic
transitive
gloss: To animate or enliven (one's mood, or soul or spirit).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
literary
often
poetic
transitive
examples: […] I therefore beseech God to give you his grace and blessing, and the influence of his blessed Spirit, that you may subdue and conquer the temperament of your nature, to do all things well-pleasing to him, and that may irradiate and strengthen your souls and direct you in all things, for there is none that teacheth like him.
gloss: To cause (one's face) to look beautiful, happy, or lively; to light up.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
literary
often
poetic
transitive
examples: [W]e regarded with awe and reverence the sublime features of Madame Columbus, now irradiated with triumph.
gloss: To decorate (a place) splendidly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
literary
often
poetic
transitive
examples: No vveeping orphan ſavv his father's ſtores / Our ſhrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors; […]
gloss: To enlighten (someone, their mind, etc.) intellectually or spiritually; to illuminate, to shed light on.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
literary
often
poetic
transitive
examples: This book might irradiate your mind
And indeed we ought, in these happy intervals, when our understandings are thus irradiated and enlightened, to make a judgment of the state and condition of our souls in the sight of God, and not to take our estimate of it when our understandings are eclipsed, and we are overshadowed with a dark cloud of sadness and melancholy.
For him, in one dear Presence, there exists / A virtue which irradiates and exalts / Objects through widest intercourse of sense.
Nevertheless, she seemed to him so new to life, so truly a child—a reason, doubtless, more urgent to uphold and lend her his protection: the ray of humanity irradiating her features—the exclamation that burst from her, upon his first arousing from the torpor of insensibility, whilst extended in his narrow hammock on ship-board, had ever since left impressions of gratitude on his memory.
He [Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet] first irradiated the entire annals of antiquity down to the age of Charlemagne with flashes of light that reveal an unity and coherence which had been lost in their magnitude and obscurity.
gloss: To send out (something) as if in the form of rays; to diffuse, to radiate, to shed.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
literary
often
poetic
transitive
examples: Mercury in any geniture, if he ſhall be found in Virgo, or Piſces his oppoſite ſigne, and that in the Horoſcope, irradiated by thoſe quartile aspects of Saturne or Mars, the childe ſhall be mad or melancholy.
[H]is ideal of grandeur was a splendid façade, diffusing its brilliancy outward too, irradiating hospitality.
gloss: To influence (something) as if with rays of heat, light, etc.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
literary
obsolete
poetic
transitive
examples: [T]he neighbouring Spermatick Veſſels are irradiated and virtuated by the kidneys, even as the Brain irradiates the lovver Parts, by an inbred property reſembling light.
There muſt be antecedent to it that Ethereal or Solar heat, that muſt digeſt, influence, irradiate, and put theſe more ſimple parts of Matter into motion and coalition: […]
gloss: To become bright; to brighten, to light up.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
often
poetic
gloss: Often followed by on or upon: to emit rays of light; to shine.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
often
poetic
gloss: To emit something other than light; to radiate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
literary
often
poetic
examples: [T]he pleaſures of ſenſe have no reliſh vvhere thou [Jesus] irradiateſt and teſtifieſt vvith our conſcience, that vve are the children of God, and have done thy vvill ſincerely, […]
gloss: To diverge or be sent out in the form of rays.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
obsolete
often
poetic
examples: […] Moſes by approaching to God in the Mount, had a Communication of Glory or Light from him, vvhich irradiated from his Face vvhen he deſcended from the Mount.
Related words: irradiance
irradiancy
irradiant
irradiation
radiance
radiancy
radiant
radiate
radiation
radiation therapy
radiography
radiotherapy
Derived words: irradiator
irradiated
irradiating
irradiatingly
irradiative
nonirradiating
unirradiated
X-irradiate
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: облъчвам
roman: oblǎčvam
lang: Estonian
word: kiiritama
lang: Finnish
word: sädettää
lang: Finnish
word: säteilyttää
lang: German
word: bestrahlen
lang: Macedonian
word: озрачи
roman: ozrači
lang: Persian
word: پرتو زدن
roman: partow zadan
lang: Polish
word: napromieniowywać
lang: Polish
word: napromieniować
lang: Spanish
word: radiar
lang: Swedish
word: bestråla