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illuminate

Definition for illuminate

verb as in make light

verb as in make clear; educate

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Example Sentences

When we can barely illuminate our own world, it would be superstitious to imagine that dead men could do it for us.

These numbers portend to illuminate society-threatening failures within the current immigration enforcement system.

Reading them will illuminate your own life and make it better.

Dispensing with some of the objections helps to illuminate this case.

But he says it well and often adds fresh details that help illuminate events in countries like Afghanistan.

Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.

Great artists appear in clusters, and amid the other constellations that illuminate the intellectual heavens.

By that time the grin in his face was almost bright enough of itself to illuminate any ordinary page.

History wants no illusions; it should illuminate and instruct, not merely give descriptions and narratives which impress us.

There was sufficient light from the lamps of the two cars to illuminate the scene.

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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to illuminate, such as: brighten, flash, highlight, light up, spotlight, and fire.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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