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illustrate

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1. illustrate - Adjective

2. illustrate - Verb

Meaning

To make clear, bright, or luminous.

To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.

To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.

To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.

To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.

Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.

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illustrate a book with drawings Source: Internet

2441.pdf The pictures below illustrate how landscape features on Mars closely resemble those on the Earth. Source: Internet

A diverse set of folk songs, poems and tales illustrate her as an ideal ruler, a holy woman onto whom certain attributes of pagan deities and Christian saints were sometimes projected. Source: Internet

Actual case studies of Rappaport’s family research will be used to illustrate “brick walls” that he encountered. Source: Internet

Although earlier precursors to this presentation exist, its invention is generally credited to the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, who intended the table to illustrate recurring trends in the properties of the elements. Source: Internet

A few selected users can illustrate ideas, and the illustrations are linked to on the idea's page. Source: Internet

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