ILLUMINE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they illumine ... he / she / it illumines

Past simple: illumined

Past participle: illumined

-ing form: illumining

Meaning:

Make lighter or brighter

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 "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