to irradiate

Examples

• All

• Their lives, transformed by conversion, embody and transmit something of that core meaning of Christianity that can irradiate countless of their particular statements and deeds.

  Academic text (2008)

• The speaker's words seemed to irradiate the audience with inspiration and hope.

• My mother made us go hide in another room whenever it was operating because she thought it would irradiate us.

  Blog text (1)

• Are these the people you want to ostracize, to offend, to irradiate with your venom and your resentment?

• This capacity of the arts to sweeten and irradiate human living was surely what William Blake had in mind when, in his Vision of the Last Judgment, he wrote that the main object of his own work was to restore what the ancients called the golden age.

  Academic text (1993)

• It is a long way from here to the Malabar Caves, a long way from the glow and order with which Fanny irradiates her "East," to the squalid suicide room in Manhattan, to Richard's airshaft in The Hours.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Through his teachings, the mentor was able to irradiate his students with deep spiritual insight.

• Her passionate faith could irradiate the room and uplift everyone present.

Synonyms

E

to enlighten

vsto irradiate

• Formal

13 6.8

To give someone deep spiritual understanding through teaching or practice

is the same in meaning but is a different word form

T

to translate

vsto irradiate

• Literature

5 9.1

Move someone into a higher spiritual state

focuses on giving insight rather than producing an altered spiritual state

E

to enkindle

vsto irradiate

• Archaic

1 9.2

To make someone feel a strong emotion

is specific to spiritual insight rather than broad emotional arousal

P

to pneumatize

vsto irradiate

• Formal

9.9

To give people a strong feeling of spiritual power

focuses on offering insight rather than infusing spiritual power

L

to lumine

vsto irradiate

• Archaic

9.9

To explain a difficult idea so someone understands

focuses on inspiring spiritual insight rather than simply clarifying ideas

Antonyms

C

to confuse

266 1.9

Make someone unable to think clearly or make something hard to understand

How Enlightening

to irradiate

• Literature

1 9.9

to inspire

837 3.2

to educate

627 2.2

to inform

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology