Definition of "irradiates" [irradiates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of irradiate. (verb)

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• "Lamb every now and then "irradiates", and the beam, though single and fine as a hair, yet is rich with colours, and I both see and feel it."
• "(He pauses, and the light of a new thought irradiates his face.)"
• "We pad, barefoot, through security lines, shove our personal belongings into the maw of an X-ray machine, face the choice of standing in a machine that irradiates us while conducting a strip search or submitting to a groping body search, and then spend more time getting reorganized enough to make it to the gate."