illuminate
IPA: ɪɫˈumɪnɪt
noun
- Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.
verb
- (transitive) To shine light on something.
- (transitive) To decorate something with lights.
- (transitive, figurative) To clarify or make something understandable.
- (transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.
- (transitive, figurative) To make spectacular.
- (intransitive) To glow; to light up.
- (intransitive) To be exposed to light.
- (transitive, military) To direct a radar beam toward.
adjective
- (obsolete) enlightened
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Examples of "illuminate" in Sentences
- It does not seek to "illuminate" the frauds or the problems that arise from endemic mortgage fraud.
- He continues by breaking down UxD, examining how each element implied in the title illuminate his hypothesis - that the ephemeral and insubstantial
- This problem is typically ignored -- at least by the financial sector and the mainstream media -- so we did "illuminate" the problem and the cause of action borrowers could bring for "fraud in the inducement."
- "The average person sees more news in a day than they saw in a year 10 years ago," says Richard Buck, CEO and co-founder at Eluma (a variation of the word illuminate), which offers a new personal web organizer to handle the growing problem of information overload.
- What this article has tried to illuminate is a dual condition in which psychology — in a piecemeal way in the course of the early part of the nineteenth century — is emerging as an empirical science for the study of the individual mind, but is also at this point becoming a new forum for a humanist metaphysics of the individual.
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