[ UK /ɪlˈuːm/ ]
VERB
  1. make lighter or brighter
    This lamp lightens the room a bit
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How To Use illume In A Sentence

  • There, also, he caught a glimpse of himself as an obscure, diaphanous man reflected on the glass; his transposed image was cast amongst the wide residential street-the adjacent and similarly designed homes, the xeriscaped lawns-backlit by a table lamp but also illumed in that frozen vapor which brightened the night, that curious downpouring which smothered the gravel-laden property and changed his Suburban Half-Ton LS from sandalwood metallic to an almost solid white. 'The Post-War Dream'
  • He covered his eyes, not yet used to the blinding light, but just as quickly uncovered them, for in the instant that the room had been illumed, the contents of room had been revealed.
  • Of the study decorate must consider quiet, daylighting enough, be helpful for focussing attention, need of this one effect is built with colour, illume, decorations .
  • The colour of metope made fundamental key of whole room colorific, next, the colorific such as furniture, illume, decorations distributings to get its restrict.
  • At this period, missionaries were rife about Paris, and endeavored to re-illume the zeal of the faithful by public preachings in the churches. The Paris Sketch Book
  • Pus après, furent les portes de le chastel, qe treblées erent, ars e espris par feu que fust illumée de bacons e de grece. Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851
  • Consuetude is an established custom, while a phillumenist is a matchbook collector. CBC | Top Stories News
  • But, oh, must I go out into that unillumed darkness, forever shut out from light and hope? Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival
  •   Should be the light which streams here, to illume Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • Only at a spelling bee could one hear sentences like these: "Lauren gently informed her father that the exploding fist bump had fallen out of consuetude" and "The phillumenist had a hard time obtaining fire insurance on his storage unit. CBC | Top Stories News
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