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illuminate English

Meaning illuminate meaning

What does illuminate mean?
Definitions in simple English

illuminate Verb

— If something is illuminated, it shines light on something. — If someone illuminates something, they decorate something with lights

illuminate Noun

— An illuminate is someone who has high enlightenment.

illuminate

— verb (= light) make lighter or brighter This lamp lightens the room a bit — verb (= clear, clear up) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear Could you clarify these remarks? Clear up the question of who is at fault — verb add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)

Synonyms illuminate synonyms

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illuminate English » English

light up light shine illumine enlighten brighten lighten explain clarify shine on irradiate illume elucidate radiate shed light on give light shine upon make bright illustrate give light to emit decorate straighten out sort out paint ornament make clear expound emblazon emblaze embellish crystallize crystallise crystalize crystalise color clear up clear cause to shine be bright with light turn on throw the light upon throw light on throw teach shine in shine at shed see report

Topics illuminate topics

What do people use illuminate to talk about?
States Quality

Light

Conjugation illuminate conjugation

How do you conjugate illuminate?

illuminate · verb

Examples illuminate examples

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Simple sentences

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn in order to illuminate their century.
The sun is the torch, the lamp of the universe; if it is situated in the central region it's because this is the best place to illuminate the planets.
I illuminate myself with immensity.
I use a flashlight to illuminate dark areas.

Movie subtitles

The scribe room. where our experts copy and illuminate manuscripts.
Illuminate with star shell.
Janning's record and his fate. illuminate the most shattering truth that has emerged from this trial.
I could illuminate it for you.
May the light that I couldn't see anymore, and which once was mine, illuminate me now for the last time.
But you can't expect life to illuminate the target and steady your aim.
This will serve to illuminate our way.
So, dear chandelier, be so kind and illuminate? us!
On its dark side, super bolts of lightning illuminate the clouds as first revealed by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979.
And with my system, one can exchange illuminate a whole city, more and more, a whole country.
And the thing that is essential about humour it does illuminate and it diffuses and it helps us to live more easily throughout our life wherever we are and with whoever we are.
Designed to illuminate. Not to destroy.
If we illuminate, the last two carriers in the Pacific fleet are lit up like Christmas Trees.
Illuminate at once.
That would be enough to heat, illuminate and provide with electricity our town and institute for 2 weeks.
And when you observe that he has done nothing to me, let me hasten to illuminate you on this.
For words have a strange power to illuminate the darkness. Surrounding the named object.
Now, they deal with death, yet they illuminate our minds.
Lights used to floodlight the area were spun round to illuminate a hangar.
More often, their function was to illuminate.
Designed to illuminate.
We're here to stimulate, eliminate, an' congregate, illuminate.
A light from the present reaches back to illuminate that shadow.
The lights illuminate her like a spirit.
Captain, we should illuminate any strands within 2,000 kilometres.
So that castles burn and in the night illuminate the road for our army!
Janning's record and his fate illuminate the most shattering truth that has emerged from this trial.
For words have a strange power to illuminate the darkness.
God has begun to illuminate you.
God has started to illuminate you, but let His grace be complete.
Illuminate your souls!
How does it illuminate the other satellites of the Jovian system?
Your rays illuminate the old sacred convent.
So why don't you just ruminate whilst I illuminate the possibilities?
The firelight was bright enough to illuminate the bare treetrunks outside.
Illuminate center section floods.
Nero would illuminate his whole garden. with bodies of live Christians covered in burning oil. strung up on flaming crosses, crucified.
Sports are so pedestrian. I prepared some science experiments that will illuminate the mind and dazzle the eye.

News and current affairs

Epidemiologists have suggested that the study of how infectious diseases are propagated may illuminate the unusual patterns of financial contagion that we have seen in the last five years.
Similarly, students can learn from the results of scientific studies, limited though they may be, and by studying the range of behaviors and contexts that historical episodes can illuminate.
But, like a socialist utopia or pure libertarianism, the idea of world government can illuminate a sensible path for capturing the benefits of a more effective global polity.
He worked on a range of problems, typically the major international and national economic issues of the day, drawing on his knowledge of economic history to illuminate the present.
There is simply no set of bedrock principles on which one can base calculations that illuminate real-world economic outcomes.
Barely discernible most of the time, only brief flashes illuminate the battle, as when Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested.
Snowden did not create the security-privacy dilemma, but he did illuminate a deeply rooted problem that Western leaders have long tried to obscure.

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