ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Irradiated

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Irradiated is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of irradiate.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of irradiate.

More Meanings

  1. Emitted outwards from a centre like rays.
  2. (heraldry) Having rays; radiant.
  3. Having been exposed to radiation (as for example by imaging, food-safety sterilization, or a nuclear blast).

Example Sentences

Crest — Rising from the top of a lighthouse argent irradiated or a martlet azure.
[...] in her dexter hand a pair of scales or, and in her sinister a touchstone sable, her head irradiated.
[...] a naked child seized by a bear passant sable semee d'estoiles or, on a chief argent three roses gules irradiated.
Per Fess, Or, and Argent, a Rose irradiated Gules, therefrom issuant two Griphons' heads addorsed Sable. William Barlow.

Antonyms for irradiated

Common opposites include unirradiated.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include radiant, radioactive, neutron, glowing, ergosterol, exposed.

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