irradiate

Meanings

1. Made brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated.
2. Made splendid or wonderful.

1. To send out (heat, light, or some other form of radiation) in the form of rays; to radiate.
2. To make (someone or something) bright by shining light on them or it; to brighten, to illuminate.
3. To apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something).
4. To treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens.
5. To treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation.
6. To animate or enliven (one's mood, or soul or spirit).
7. To cause (one's face) to look beautiful, happy, or lively; to light up.
8. To decorate (a place) splendidly.
9. To enlighten (someone, their mind, etc.) intellectually or spiritually; to illuminate, to shed light on.
10. To send out (something) as if in the form of rays; to diffuse, to radiate, to shed.
11. To influence (something) as if with rays of heat, light, etc.
12. To become bright; to brighten, to light up.

Etymology

From Middle English irradiate (“illuminated, shining”), borrowed from Medieval Latin irradiātus, perfect passive participle of irradiō, from ir- (“against; into; on, upon”) + radiō (“to cause to radiate, irradiate; to emit beams, radiate”), from radius (“ray of light; rod, staff; spoke of a wheel”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (further etymology uncertain; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁t- (“beam; pole; post”)). The adjective is attested earlier than the verb. The English word is analysable as in- (“against; into; on, upon”) + radiate.

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