irradiate
verb (used with object)
to shed rays of light upon; illuminate.
are irradiating
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present progressiveof irradiate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Biologists are irradiating thousands of male mosquitoes in labs, to be released later, in the hope that their offspring will be unviable because of DNA damage.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2023
At Argonne, AEC scientists are irradiating small bats and examining their tissue-thin wings under high-power microscopes, to study the effects of radiation on blood and its delicate corpuscles.
From Time Magazine Archive
