Verb
shed light upon (third-person singular simple present sheds light upon, present participle shedding light upon, simple past and past participle shed light upon)
(idiomatic) Illuminate to the understanding; make intelligible; clarify or explain (something unknown).
This mystery has vexed us all hitherto; perhaps you will be able to shed light upon the matter, Inspector.
Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it? Reza Aslan
A tax on tallows and another on the manufacture of the candles increased by 5 pennies the cost of his luminary, which became thus more expensive than the value of the product that it could shed light upon. Source: Internet
The difficulty (and the value) of such an exercise depends on the subtlety of the proposal; the best ones tend to arise from physicists' own thought experiments and often shed light upon certain aspects of physics. Source: Internet