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illuminate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES light illuminates sth formal (= makes it bright or able to be seen ) ▪ The light from the screen illuminated the people gathered round it. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB also ▪ They would also illuminate any steps. ...
Wikipedia
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Illuminate is the second album by the Dutch rock band Destine . It was released March 30, 2012, and the same date on iTunes . Three of the songs were released before the album as singles ( Stay , Thousand Miles and Night Skies) and music video of Stay and ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Illuminate \Il*lu"mi*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Illuminated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Illuminating .] [L. illuminatus, p. p. of illuminare; pref. il- in + luminare to enlighten, fr. lumen light. See Luminous , and cf. Illume , Illumine , Enlimn , Limn .] To make ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) enlightened n. Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment. v 1 (context transitive English) To shine light on something. 2 (context transitive English) To decorate something with lights. 3 (context transitive English) ...
Usage examples of illuminate.
When her lumane illuminated what she had stumbled over, she gave a little cry.
He forcibly turned his attention to the brilliantly illuminated wall of lights, cut crystal, stained aerogel, mirrors, and high-tech circuitry which constituted the bar.
Ryder played the spotlight along the bank, hoping to intimidate the Ansar marksmen or, at least, to illuminate them so that his own crew could return fire more accurately.
The flowing gown she wore, draped around her shoulders and left arm, presented a study in contrast, as the light from various areas around the statue and its pedestal helped illuminate the statue against the dark background.
Burning avgas illuminated the southern slope of the hill like noonday.
On Thursday evening there was to be a dance at Curlew, the country home of the Peytons, and Jenny Blair had been invited to spend the night with Bena and watch the illuminated fountain from the upstairs porch of the nursery.
Their lower halves were brightly illuminated for hours, and yet did not bend in the least towards the light, though this is the part which under ordinary circumstances bends the most.
The only vessels we sighted were neutral fishing boats fully illuminated.
He pressed the switch on the handle of the lamp-light and a powerful white beam illuminated the back of the Cagliari pits.
A film of reflected street-lighting shimmered over the whole scene, closing the eyes of modern Cairenes to the wonder of the stars but at the same time creating the hallucination of a fairyland illuminated in greens and reds and blues and sulphurous yellows.
From the remote islands of the Indian Ocean a large provision of camphire had been imported, which is employed with a mixture of wax to illuminate the palaces of the East.
The lights along Western Avenue illuminated the speeding cars, moving together towards their celebration of wounds.
With a circle of light illuminating the floor about them, they walked to its centermost part.
Computers spooled tape and illuminated buttons flashed in sequence, though what that signified Charlton had no idea.
When he reached the shack -- merely a one-roomed hut, with a stovepipe chimney, two windows, and a door -- Christopher stood at the entrance and seemed to illuminate it.