irradiate
verb (used with object)
to shed rays of light upon; illuminate.
had irradiated
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past perfectof irradiate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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As Bonlieu toiled away in Auckland, Warrior crew members were moving a community of cancer-stricken Marshall Islanders, ignored by the American government that had irradiated their atoll, to a new home.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Eddings, who knew from experience that addressing racial injustice at work could create intense blowback, wondered at the time if he had irradiated his career.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
The joy which the moment before had irradiated it vanished like a flash, and in its place came a look of blank despair that would have touched a heart of stone.
From Terry's Trials and Triumphs by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley
Maxwell, the other enthusiast, was an admiring disciple of Paracelsus, and boasted that he had irradiated the obscurity in which too many of the wonder-working recipes of that great philosopher were enveloped.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
A haunting thing of mystery and glamour, such mystery and glamour as had irradiated his long and wonderful night.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
