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illuminateverb to supply with lighta floor lamp illuminates a living room rather nicely bathe, beacon, emblaze, illume, illumine, irradiate, light, lighten brightenbeam, beat (down), radiate, shineenhalo, halofloodlighthighlight, spotlightblaze, burn, fire, flame, glare, glow, ignite, incinerate, kindlebedazzle, blind, daze, dazzlegleam, glisten, glitter blacken, darken, obfuscate dim, dull, obscurecover, shroud, veildouse(also dowse), extinguish, put out, quench, snuff (out) to make plain or understandablethe museum's exhibit on the refraction of light really illuminated the subject for us clarify, clear (up), construe, demonstrate, demystify, elucidate, explain, explicate, expound, get across, illustrate, interpret, simplify, spell out, unriddle decipher, decodeanalyze, break downdisentangle, undo, unravel, unscramble, untangleresolve, solvedefine, specifyannotate, commentate, gloss obscure befog, cloudconfound, confuse, obfuscate to supplement with pictorial matter for the purpose of explanation or decorationno one knows for sure the identity of the artist who illuminated that medieval manuscript so beautifully illustrate, pictorialize image, picture, visualize to indicate the importance of by centering attention onthe results of the statewide testing illuminated the need to place more focus on instruction in math and science accent, accentuate, emphasize, feature, foreground, highlight, play up, point (up), press, punctuate, stress focus, identify, pinpoint, spotlightadvertise, boost, plug, promote, publicizeoverplay bear down on, make much of de-emphasize, play down tone (down), underemphasize, understatebelittle, discount, disparage, minimize to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understandinghow man is illuminated by a higher spirit edify, educate, enlighten, illume, illumine, inspire, nurture elevate, ennoble, enrich, ensoul, lift, upliftbetter, improve, regenerate, renew, transformexalt, glorify, transfigure confuse, perplex, puzzlebecloud, cloud, darken, obscure in the 15th century |