insolate

1. 1.

   expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun

   “insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble”

   “These herbs suffer when sunned”

   Synonymssunsolarizesolarise

   Broaderexpose

Other forms of insolate

past tense

insolated·

present participle

insolating·

third person

insolates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about insolate

What does insolate mean?

insolate means "expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun".

How many syllables are in insolate?

insolate has 3 syllables: in-so-late. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for insolate?

Close synonyms include sun, solarize, solarise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is insolate a common word?

insolate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.