radiate
Americanverb (used without object)
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to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
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to emit rays, as of light or heat; irradiate.
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to issue or proceed in rays.
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(of persons) to project or glow with cheerfulness, joy, etc..
She simply radiates with good humor.
verb (used with object)
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to emit in rays; disseminate, as from a center.
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(of persons) to project (joy, goodwill, etc.).
adjective
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radiating from a center.
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having rays extending from a central point or part.
a coin showing a radiate head.
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radiating symmetrically.
verb
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Also: eradiate. to emit (heat, light, or some other form of radiation) or (of heat, light, etc) to be emitted as radiation
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(intr) (of lines, beams, etc) to spread out from a centre or be arranged in a radial pattern
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(tr) (of a person) to show (happiness, health, etc) to a great degree
adjective
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having rays; radiating
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(of a capitulum) consisting of ray florets
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(of animals or their parts) showing radial symmetry
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adorned or decorated with rays
a radiate head on a coin
Other Word Forms
- antiradiating adjective
- interradiate verb (used without object)
- multiradiate adjective
- multiradiated adjective
- nonradiating adjective
- radiability noun
- radiable adjective
- radiableness noun
- radiably adverb
- radiately adverb
- reradiate verb
- subradiate adjective
- unradiated adjective
Etymology
Origin of radiate
First recorded in 1610–20, radiate is from the Latin word radiātus (past participle of radiāre to radiate light, shine). See radiant, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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To get there, she jumped, radiated and hair-flipped through an exuberant free program set to Donna Summer.
Mr. Powell radiates such manly American likability that it’s bizarrely out of character for him to play this ruthless schemer, even as an impish chancer.
But he knows that he’ll never have that natural brilliance that radiates from Mozart’s compositions like a heavenly light.
From Los Angeles Times
He looked up at his friends, both of them radiating with the sparks of light.
From Literature
I must have radiated foul meanness of the most terrible kind.
From Literature
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