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▸ adjective:  Made brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Made splendid or wonderful.
▸ verb:  (transitive)
▸ verb:  To send out (heat, light, or some other form of radiation) in the form of rays; to radiate.
▸ verb:  (often literary or poetic) To make (someone or something) bright by shining light on them or it; to brighten, to illuminate.
▸ verb:  (technology) To apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something).
▸ verb:  To treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens.
▸ verb:  (medicine) To treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation.
▸ verb:  (figurative, often literary or poetic)
▸ verb:  To animate or enliven (one's mood, or soul or spirit).
▸ verb:  To cause (one's face) to look beautiful, happy, or lively; to light up.
▸ verb:  To decorate (a place) splendidly.
▸ verb:  To enlighten (someone, their mind, etc.) intellectually or spiritually; to illuminate, to shed light on.
▸ verb:  To send out (something) as if in the form of rays; to diffuse, to radiate, to shed.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, figurative) To influence (something) as if with rays of heat, light, etc.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, often literary or poetic)
▸ verb:  To become bright; to brighten, to light up.
▸ verb:  Often followed by on or upon: to emit rays of light; to shine.
▸ verb:  (figurative) To emit something other than light; to radiate.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To diverge or be sent out in the form of rays.




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