Synonyms for illumine

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ih-loo-min

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlu mɪn

Définition of illumine

Origin : late 14c., "to enlighten spiritually;" mid-15c., "to light up, shine light on," from Old French illuminer, from Latin illuminare (see illumination). Related: illumined.

verb light up
verb explain

Example sentences :

Again I am told the host managed to illumine his refusal with a smile.
Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson

Rome, immense and dominated by a battle of clouds, seemed to illumine the sky.
Extract from : « The Child of Pleasure » by Gabriele D'Annunzio

His disc was of a lurid red,—a colour appropriate to the spectacle it was to illumine.
Extract from : « The Ocean Waifs » by Mayne Reid

If this can illumine the obscurity, it will all be on the positive side of the inquiry.
Extract from : « Moon Lore » by Timothy Harley

The sun shone on Chepe; he only asked that it should illumine the page he read.
Extract from : « Burlesques » by William Makepeace Thackeray

And if it is invisible itself, how will it illumine an object?
Extract from : « The Grain Ship » by Morgan Robertson

It is the detail of the real, and no longer only the whole in a lump, that it claims to illumine.
Extract from : « Creative Evolution » by Henri Bergson

One knows not at what hour God may touch and illumine his or another's heart.
Extract from : « Epistle Sermons, Vol. II » by Martin Luther

With them you retain what you have seen, and illumine it with a special radiance.
Extract from : « Arachne, Complete » by Georg Ebers

But the sun which was to illumine this day with wondrous glory had not yet appeared.
Extract from : « The Empress Josephine » by Louise Muhlbach

Antonyms for illumine

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