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What (who) is Illuminate - definition
illuminate
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Illuminates; Illuminate (disambiguation); Illuminate (album)
(illuminates, illuminating, illuminated)
1.
To illuminate something means to shine light on it and to make it brighter and more visible. (FORMAL)
No streetlights illuminated the street...
VERB: V n
2.
If you illuminate something that is unclear or difficult to understand, you make it clearer by explaining it carefully or giving information about it. (FORMAL)
They use games and drawings to illuminate their subject.
VERB: V n
• illuminating
His autobiography provides an illuminating insight into his mind.
ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf
illuminate
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Illuminates; Illuminate (disambiguation); Illuminate (album)
v. a.
1.
Light, illumine, illume, supply with light.
2.
Adorn with lights (as a building), light up.
3.
Adorn with colored letters.
4.
Enlighten, illumine, make wise, instruct, inspire, give insight.
Illuminate
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Illuminates; Illuminate (disambiguation); Illuminate (album)
·vi To light up in token or rejoicing.
II. Illuminate ·adj Enlightened.
III. Illuminate ·noun One who enlightened; ·esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.
IV. Illuminate ·vt To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
V. Illuminate ·vt To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to Brighten.
VI. Illuminate ·vt To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
Examples of use of Illuminate
1. Lantern–style lights illuminate the life–size statues inside.
2. Senators sought documents that might illuminate her legal views.
3. Israeli forces used flares at night to illuminate the area.
4. Voters stepped in, raising cash, loaning computers and using motorcyle headlights to illuminate ballot–counting centers.
5. He believes in art‘s transcendence and its ability to illuminate the human condition.