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 使生辉；使焕发 - irradiate something (specialist)
to treat food with gamma radiation in order to preserve it 辐照（食物以放射线处理，以便贮存） - irradiate something (with something) (literary)
to make something look brighter and happier 使生辉；使焕发 faces irradiated with joy 一张张高兴得神采奕奕的面孔
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’).