ILLUME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does illume mean? 

• ILLUME (verb)
  The verb ILLUME has 1 sense:

1. make lighter or brighter

  Familiarity information: ILLUME used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILLUME (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make lighter or brighter

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

illume; illuminate; illumine; light; light up

Context example:

This lamp lightens the room a bit

Hypernyms (to "illume" is one way to...):

lighten; lighten up (become lighter)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "illume"):

floodlight (illuminate with floodlights)

spotlight (illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something