IRRADIATED Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

irradiated

verb

past tense of irradiate

as in illumined

to supply with light the light from a galaxy of flashing signs irradiates the heart and soul of Las Vegas

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as in radiated

to throw or give off irradiating an aura of supreme confidence on the playing field

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Recent Examples of irradiated Except for patients with low-grade disease that’s unlikely to turn deadly, the whole gland gets removed, or irradiated. — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 21 Aug. 2026 These are all less immediately life-threatening when irradiated, but carry a long-term cancer risk. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026 First fuel removal The samples were irradiated using the Fission Accelerated Steady-state Testing (FAST) method. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2026 The sterile flies are irradiated and released en masse, designed to blanket a region experiencing an outbreak. — Evan Bush, NBC news, 7 June 2026 Vector control districts serving Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties have irradiated males and released them in recent years. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 Dirty Electrons For six years, Bouquet and Kéraval studied two sets of sealed, irradiated soil samples — one of normal soil, and one that was supplemented with glucose. — Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026 Most of the food comes ready to eat, having been rehydrated, thermostabilized using heat to destroy harmful microorganisms and enzymes, or irradiated to kill bacteria. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026 Boyd notes that the power in the beam matters but so does the material that is irradiated. — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026

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Fantastic, illumined by periodic excursions into surrealism, as when the crew of a mysterious UFO boards a transpacific Kahuna Airlines jet midflight.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026

Definition of illumined

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The jet carries 500,000 times the energy radiated by the sun and explains the mystery of how feeding black holes become such powerful cosmic particle accelerators and generate such high-energy gamma-ray photons.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Joyful noise and other, impolite sounds radiated from the sets oscillating between the two sites.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026

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The rule also translates to an extra 90 tons a year of soot particles and 4,870 additional tons a year of smog components such as nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds emitted into the air in coming years, experts say.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
On the stage, three massive towers that emitted flames lit up in perfect coordination with the fans’ Nachimbongs, creating an immersive atmosphere that elevated every moment of the show.

— Natalia Cano, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2026

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Characters come alive with desire, as if lit from within by candles.

— E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
This adds together exposures taken over just 30 minutes on an early June night when, from my latitude of 51° N satellites even in low Earth orbit are lit all night by sunlight.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of lit

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The leadership of the Board of Regents is also cast in an unforgiving light.

— Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
Plot and casting details remain under wraps, but the project is co-written with Fatrick Tabada (Flower Girl), marking Jadaone’s return to the genre that helped establish her as a local favorite nearly a decade after Love You To The Stars And Back.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2026

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Viz Media and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro) released the material.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
Porsche is best known for its traditional sports cars like the 911, but the automaker has released several longroofs over the years, including, over the last decade, variants of the Panamera and Taycan.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2026

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