MEANING
To expose something to radiation, deliberately or through its surroundings.
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Words that belong together
- irradiate a sample
- irradiated material
On the page
The technicians irradiated the sealed samples before measuring the changes.
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Word forms
- Base
- irradiate
- Past tense
- irradiated
- Past participle
- irradiated
- Present participle
- irradiating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- irradiate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are irradiating
- Present perfect
- have/has irradiated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been irradiating
- Past
- irradiated
- Past continuous
- was/were irradiating
- Past perfect
- had irradiated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been irradiating
- Future
- will irradiate
- Future continuous
- will be irradiating
- Future perfect
- will have irradiated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been irradiating
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: irradiate; irradiates; irradiated; irradiated; irradiating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: irradiates.
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