illumine

Verb

Meaning

To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

light illuminate illume light up school direct improve explain lighting interpret illustrate inform clarify educate ignite
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Antonyms

hear discover obscure fog eclipse confuse
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Hypernyms

lighten lighten up

Hyponyms

floodlight spotlight

Anagrams

limuline

Examples

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. Swami Vivekananda

What is dark within me, illumine. John Milton

Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind. John Lancaster Spalding

The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim. Nathalia Crane

...a medium best suited to illumine and dramatize the issues of the times has its product pressed into a mold, painted lily-white, and has its dramatic teeth yanked out one by one. Rod Serling

One should be prepared to receive ninety-nine percent of an enemy's attack and stare death right in the face in order to illumine the Path. Morihei Ueshiba

Close letter words and terms

illuminator's art illuminatory Illuminatus illumined illuminee illuminer