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IRRADIATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expose to radiation

Example:

irradiate food

Synonyms:

irradiate; ray

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "irradiate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "irradiate"):

bombard (direct high energy particles or radiation against)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s somebody
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Derivation:

irradiation (the condition of being exposed to radiation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cast rays of light upon

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "irradiate" is one way to...):

lighten; lighten up (become lighter)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

irradiation (a column of light (as from a beacon))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Give spiritual insight to; in religion

Synonyms:

enlighten; irradiate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "irradiate" is one way to...):

prophesy; vaticinate (predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration)

Sentence frame:

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Credits

 Context examples: 

The radiation emitted is usually of longer wavelength than that incident or absorbed, e.g., a substance can be irradiated with invisible radiation and emit visible light.

(Fluorescence, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An allogeneic cancer vaccine composed of a mixture of lethally irradiated whole melanoma cancer cells obtained from four different melanoma cell lines, with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.

(Allogeneic Irradiated Melanoma Cell Vaccine CSF470, NCI Thesaurus)

An autologous tumor cell vaccine containing irradiated breast cancer cells transfected with the granulocyte macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) gene with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Autologous GM-CSF-Secreting Breast Cancer Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine comprised of irradiated allogeneic pancreatic cancer cells transfected to express murine alpha-1,3-galactosyltransferase with potential antitumor activity.

(Algenpantucel-L, NCI Thesaurus)

After being irradiated with light for just three minutes, the E. coli bacteria died.

(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An allogeneic whole cell vaccine, derived from irradiated allogenic tumor cells manipulated to express human B7.1 (CD80 antigen) and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) A1, with potential antitumor activity.

(Allogeneic B7.1/HLA-A1 Transfected Tumor Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

An allogenic vaccine consisting of irradiated breast cancer cells transfected with the granulocyte macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) gene.

(Allogeneic GM-CSF-Secreting Breast Cancer Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The acquisition of images of an anatomic area that is being irradiated using radiotherapy beams and an electronic detector.

(Electronic Portal Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

An allogeneic cancer vaccine composed of lethally irradiated, whole pancreatic cancer cells transfected with a plasmid carrying the gene for cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.

(Allogeneic GM-CSF-secreting Tumor Vaccine PANC 10.05 pcDNA-1/GM-Neo, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers also irradiated each batch of mosquitoes to sterilise any females left in the mix, because releasing Wolbachia-infected females has been shown to undermine the technique.

(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)