ILLUMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does illumine mean? 

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

1. make lighter or brighter

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILLUMINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they illumine    ... he / she / it illumines   
Past simple: illumined   
Past participle: illumined   
-ing form: illumining   

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 "illumine" is one way to...):

lighten; lighten up (become lighter)

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

floodlight (illuminate with floodlights)

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

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

She stirred the fire, so that a ripple of light broke from the disturbed coal: the glare, however, as she sat, only threw her face into deeper shadow: mine, it illumined.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fanny's attractions increased—increased twofold; for the sensibility which beautified her complexion and illumined her countenance was an attraction in itself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Then intelligence illumined his eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He went rapidly to where the blue flame arose—it must have been very faint, for it did not seem to illumine the place around it at all—and gathering a few stones, formed them into some device.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The tent, illumined by a candle, glowed warmly in the midst of the white plain; and when he, as a matter of course, entered it, both Perrault and François bombarded him with curses and cooking utensils, till he recovered from his consternation and fled ignominiously into the outer cold.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She put her floury and horny hand into mine; another and heartier smile illumined her rough face, and from that moment we were friends.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They were fresh now as a succession of April showers and gleams, followed by a lovely spring morning, could make them: the sun was just entering the dappled east, and his light illumined the wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down the quiet walks under them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)