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Insolate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To expose to sunlight.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To dry in, or expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To expose to the rays of the sun; affect by exposure to the sun, as for drying, ripening, arousing or stimulating (as the vital forces of a patient), or the like.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Word Usage

"This helped insolate those banks from much of the credit crisis."

Verb Form

insolated insolates insolating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

expose

Form

insolated insolating