Illuminate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ILLUMINATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to enlighten spiritually or intellectually
• light up
• decorate (a building or structure) with lights for a special occasion.
• decorate (a page or initial letter in a manuscript) with gold, silver, or coloured designs.
• help to clarify or explain
• To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
• To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
• To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
• To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.
• To light up in token or rejoicing.
• make lighter or brighter
• make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
• add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
NOUN:
• One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.
ADJECTIVE:
• Enlightened.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• brightened with light

Words related to ILLUMINATE

beshine12 enlumine10 illume8 illuminated14 illuminates13 illuminating15 illuminative17 lumine8

Words that contain ILLUMINATE

illuminated14 illuminates13 disilluminate16 unilluminated16 disilluminated18 disilluminates17 transilluminate17 transilluminated19 transilluminates18

How to use ILLUMINATE in a sentence

• Such light had come, as it could, to illuminate the darkness of this wild Arab soul.
• We passed the loopholes that illuminate the dungeon vaults, and an old arch, now walled up, where prisoners, after having been strangled, were thrown into the lake.
• Although the sun, from the latitude, has considerable power, it appears only to illuminate the sparkling snow, which, like the sugar on a bridal cake, conceals the whole surface.
• It was a close, dark night that had only phantom flickerings of sheet lightning to illuminate it.
• Her religion could only be a sympathetic and contagious flame, running from soul to soul, as beacon-fires catch at night and illuminate a whole tract of country.
• This is really splendid! I work for my daily bread, and you illuminate your house on my money.
• The rays of royal indignation, collected upon him, served only to illuminate, and could not consume.
• The one candle which I had lighted failed to sufficiently illuminate the room.
• Six silver-gilt arms, each supporting two candles, were attached to the tapestry at an equal distance, to illuminate the divan.
• The occasion of the discourse is commonly signalized by his sending forth rays of light which illuminate the universe until the scene includes other worlds.
• Hume fired into the crawling mass, pausing only once to send another of those flame bombs crashing to illuminate the scene.
• The sergeant lifted the hatch door between the two control seats and punched on a light to illuminate the stark compartment at the lower front end of the car.
• Sulpice, and now flame rises amid the smoke, and the two towers of the church are illuminated as no electric light could illuminate them.
• Its blazing flames will illuminate its peoples and kindreds.
• Sprague has reported on several investigations that illuminate the point.
• I ask God to expose thee by its coals of fire and illuminate thee by its brightness.
• If the history of a single fashion in dress could ever be written, it would illuminate the literary problem.
• The lights, such as they were, seemed to illuminate the ground floor only.
• Souls, the Supreme Being the Source of the rays which illuminate, 251-u.
• He has seen them from a handful, that one of his beams coming through a key-hole might illuminate, spread over a hemisphere which he cannot enlighten under the slightest eclipse.
• If knowledge and the object are both but corresponding points in a parallel series, whence comes this correspondence? Why should knowledge illuminate the object.
• There a number of visitors gathered around to watch proceedings, two holding up lanterns to illuminate the scene.
• Her ready intelligence was ardent enough to illuminate her.
• I needed nothing more to illuminate the relations of the Banks family.
• The atom of gas that still remained alight did not illuminate a distance of three inches round the burner.
• They have been used to illustrate and illuminate the text, and not as a medium around which to build the text.
• Besides the firelight there was only one great bronze lamp to illuminate the room.
• He observed distinctly a flash of joy illuminate her pale face and he felt a sudden and singular discontent, amounting almost to physical anguish.

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