Usually means: Expose to radiation to treat.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. irradiate: Merriam-Webster
  2. irradiate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. irradiate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. irradiate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. irradiate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Irradiate, irradiate: Wordnik
  7. irradiate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. irradiate: Wiktionary
  9. irradiate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. irradiate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. irradiate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. irradiate: Dictionary.com
  13. irradiate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Irradiate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. irradiate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. irradiate: Rhymezone
  17. Irradiate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. irradiate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. irradiate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. irradiate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. irradiate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. irradiate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irradiate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. irradiate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. irradiate: Medical dictionary

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  1. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See irradiated as well.)

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adjective:  Made brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated.
adjective:  (figurative) Made splendid or wonderful.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To send out (heat, light, or some other form of radiation) in the form of rays; to radiate.
verb:  (often literary or poetic) To make (someone or something) bright by shining light on them or it; to brighten, to illuminate.
verb:  (technology) To apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something).
verb:  To treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens.
verb:  (medicine) To treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation.
verb:  (figurative, often literary or poetic)
verb:  To animate or enliven (one's mood, or soul or spirit).
verb:  To cause (one's face) to look beautiful, happy, or lively; to light up.
verb:  To decorate (a place) splendidly.
verb:  To enlighten (someone, their mind, etc.) intellectually or spiritually; to illuminate, to shed light on.
verb:  To send out (something) as if in the form of rays; to diffuse, to radiate, to shed.
verb:  (obsolete, figurative) To influence (something) as if with rays of heat, light, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, often literary or poetic)
verb:  To become bright; to brighten, to light up.
verb:  Often followed by on or upon: to emit rays of light; to shine.
verb:  (figurative) To emit something other than light; to radiate.
verb:  (obsolete) To diverge or be sent out in the form of rays.

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