| illuminate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. illume, illuminate, illumine, light, light up | make lighter or brighter.; "This lamp lightens the room a bit" |
| ~ lighten up, lighten | become lighter.; "The room lightened up" |
| ~ floodlight | illuminate with floodlights. |
| ~ spotlight | illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out | make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" |
| ~ clarify, clear up, elucidate | make clear and (more) comprehensible.; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" |
| v. (creation) | 3. illuminate | add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts). |
| ~ artistic creation, artistic production, art | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ adorn, decorate, grace, ornament, beautify, embellish | make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" |
| ~ miniate, rubricate | decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red.; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated" |
| ~ paint | make a painting of.; "He painted his mistress many times" |
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