Wiktionary
alt. (context idiomatic English) illuminate to the understanding; make intelligible; clarify or explain (something unknown). vb. (context idiomatic English) illuminate to the understanding; make intelligible; clarify or explain (something unknown).
Usage examples of "shed light upon".
Or that the one person who might have shed light upon the demise of Texan Stuart Townsend was Carlotta Mayfair, who had died the very night that the remains were discovered, after a long and distinguished legal career?
Together they bore down on the congestion in the north walk of the cloister, and thrust a way through to shed light upon the cause of the outcry.
But for the rest it seemed to me that they might as well have named any other hero of tragedy Prometheus for example as the mighty and loving being that, even now, directed all their steps and shed light upon their path.
If she had to walk around Scotland for months clutching a photograph of him until she found someone who could identify him and shed light upon his condition, she was going to do it.
With luck, they would find something in Grant's belongings that would shed light upon his psychology, reveal an unknown aspect of his past, or give them a lead on his whereabouts.
I will report only those instances and moments which may have escaped the notice of His Majesty's vantage, again, as he has requested, to shed light upon the character of the Hellenes he there called his enemy.
Though many questions crowded into his mind, one question alone blazed with the bright light of a fiery forge, and he knew it would shed light upon all the others.
Well, I was wondering the same thing, except about a different circumstance that only Sharee might be able to shed light upon.