illuminate

Verb
  1. Make lighter or brighter (synset 200292635)
    "This lamp lightens the room a bit"
    is a type of: lighten, lighten up - become lighter
    subtypes:
    • floodlight - illuminate with floodlights
    • spotlight - illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater
    same as: illume, illumine, light, light up
  2. Make free from confusion or ambiguity;
    Make clear (synset 200622730)
    "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
    is a type of: clarify, clear up, elucidate - make clear and (more) comprehensible
    same as: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out
  3. Add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) (synset 201687653)
    referred to in: art, artistic creation, artistic production - the creation of beautiful or significant things
    entail: paint - make a painting of
    is a type of: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament - make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
    subtypes: miniate, rubricate - decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red

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