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ILLUMINE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they illumine ... he / she / it illumines
Past simple: illumined
Past participle: illumined
-ing form: illumining
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make lighter or brighter
Example:
This lamp lightens the room a bit
Synonyms:
illume; illuminate; illumine; light; light up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "illumine" is one way to...):
lighten; lighten up (become lighter)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "illumine"):
floodlight (illuminate with floodlights)
spotlight (illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
