Illuminate: alternatives and connections

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.

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To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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To descend; to light.

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That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

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To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.

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Marked with red.

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Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

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Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

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To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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To make an idea or pattern become clear and definite.

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To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.

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To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

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To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.

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To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.

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To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.

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That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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