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[ US /ˌɪˈɫumɪnɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪlˈuːmɪnˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
    Clear up the question of who is at fault
    Could you clarify these remarks?
  2. add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
  3. make lighter or brighter
    This lamp lightens the room a bit

How To Use illuminate In A Sentence

  • Or, conversely, isn't the character of modern American life strangely illuminated by -- and compatible with -- that entity that is so often described as antithetical to it, the mafia? Critical Mass
  • Yet a current show there, on one of the grandest of all illuminated manuscripts, does both.
  • Therefore, although it is the summation of light from several millimeters of tissue, the transilluminated signal gives the appearance of originating from a fairly restricted depth.
  • Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands" includes over 50 illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as printed books, and will tell you what a gipser and kirtle were. Don't Miss: June 4-10
  • Martine summoned one of them with the press of an illuminated, arrowed button.
  • The feedback from these is helpful in that the school strengths are illuminated from yet another perspective.
  • The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
  • On one side hot hydrogen gas is illuminated by a supergiant blue star called V391 Velorum. RedOrbit News - Technology
  • Single leaf from a Missal, in Latin Germany, Hamburg, shortly before 1381 Illuminated by Meister Bertram von Minden The young people hawking are fashionably dressed: the youth wears a red pourpoint with a dagged hem, a particularly tight chaperon, narrow belt, and open shoes. Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands
  • Most of the paintings are about 3¼ by 4 inches in size, captioned by four lines of Latin text with oversize, illuminated capitals and surrounded by wide borders of tiny bryony leaves on coiling vines. A Most Illuminating Show of Medieval Manuscript Pages
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