Irradiate

//ɪˈɹeɪdɪət//

Synonyms for "irradiate" (103 found)

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Closest matches (21)

enlighten radiate ablaze activate aglow anhydrate beacon bespangled blast-freeze brighten brighten up brine charge contaminate corn

Verb(6 words)

enlighten alight belight beshine bright cast

Strong matches (31)

cure dehydrate desiccate dry dry cure dry-cure dry-salt edify embalm enlightened evaporate flood with light floodlight freeze freeze dry freeze-dry fume gaslit highlight illume

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illuminate illuminated illumine improve infect irradiated

Verb(5 words)

fire illume illuminate illumine illustrate

Related words (51)

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

6 entries

lighten lighten up process prophesy treat vaticinate

Synonyms

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enlighten

Related terms

12 entries

irradiance irradiancy irradiant irradiation radiance radiancy radiant radiate radiation radiation therapy radiography radiotherapy

derived

10 entries

X-irradiate irradiated irradiating irradiatingly irradiative irradiator nonirradiating photoirradiate unirradiated

manner of

2 entries

lighten process

related to

26 entries

adorn animate bacteria brighten brilliant destroy diffuse emit enlighten heat illuminate intellectually ionizing radiation irradiance irradiancy irradiant

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Translations

12 translations across 9 languages.

Bulgarian

1 entries

облъчвам verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)

Estonian

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kiiritama verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)

Finnish

3 entries

säteilevä adj (made splendid or wonderful)
sädettää verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)
säteilyttää verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)

German

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bestrahlen verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)

Macedonian

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озрачи verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)

Persian

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پرتو زدن verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)

Polish

2 entries

napromieniować verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)
napromieniowywać verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)

Spanish

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radiar verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)

Swedish

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bestråla verb (to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation)

Sample sentences

25 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

So mused I, blind with anger, when in light / apparent, never so refulgent seen, / my mother dawned irradiate on the night, / confessed a Goddess, such her form, and mien / and starry stature of celestial sheen. / With her right hand she grasped me from above, / and thus with roseate lips:

Source: tatoeba (6855058)

There ſeek the Theban Bard, depriv'd of ſight, / VVithin, irradiate vvith prophetic light; […]

Source: wiktionary

The co-existent Flame / Knew the Destroyer; it encircled him, / Roll'd up his robe, and gathered round his head, / Condensing to intenser splendour there, / His crown of glory, and his light of life, / Hovered the irradiate wreath.

Source: wiktionary

When, disappearing from our hemisphere, / The world's enlightener vanishes, and day / On all sides wasteth, suddenly the sky, / Erewhile irradiate only with his beam, / Is yet again unfolded, putting forth / Innumerable lights wherein one shines.

Source: wiktionary

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