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ILLUME
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
This lamp lightens the room a bit
Synonyms:
illume; illuminate; illumine; light; light up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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