Crossword-Solution: ILLUMINATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Illuminate | v. t. | To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten. |
| Illuminate | v. t. | To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect. |
| Illuminate | v. t. | 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. |
| Illuminate | v. t. | 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. |
| Illuminate | v. i. | To light up in token or rejoicing. |
| Illuminate | a. | Enlightened. |
| Illuminate | n. | One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge. |
We have 124 clues for the answer “ILLUMINATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Make bright with light | 1 answer |
| miniate | 1 answer |
| colourize | 2 answers |
| Put in the spotlight | 2 answers |
| throw light on | 2 answers |
| make bright | 4 answers |
| Decorate, in a way | 6 answers |
| colorize | 6 answers |
| construe | 13 answers |
| FLOW out of | 15 answers |
| smarten | 16 answers |
| illume | 17 answers |
| Light up | 18 answers |
| ACCOUNT for | 21 answers |
| bring to notice | 24 answers |
| Glisten | 25 answers |
| Lighten | 26 answers |
| illumine | 28 answers |
| expound | 30 answers |
| Brighten | 31 answers |
| dramatise | 32 answers |
| shimmer | 32 answers |
| glamorize | 34 answers |
| Interpret | 35 answers |
| Mature | 35 answers |
| irradiate | 38 answers |
| Uplift | 38 answers |
| flare | 38 answers |
| Justify | 39 answers |
| Enlighten | 42 answers |
| Ignite | 42 answers |
| Elucidate | 43 answers |
| Bring to Light | 43 answers |
| Describe | 43 answers |
| Illustrate | 43 answers |
| Alleviate | 44 answers |
| Divulge | 44 answers |
| MAKE less dense | 44 answers |
| Burn | 44 answers |
| Enrich | 45 answers |
| Edify | 46 answers |
| Adorn | 46 answers |
| Spruce (up) | 46 answers |
| enlightening | 46 answers |
| illuminative | 46 answers |
| informational | 46 answers |
| Define | 46 answers |
| Ennoble | 47 answers |
| MAKE changes | 47 answers |
| Illuminating | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ILLUMINATE (5)
And God made two great Lights, great for thir use To Man, the greater to have rule by Day, The less by Night alterne: and made the Starrs, And set them in the Firmament of Heav’n To illuminate the Earth, and rule the Day In thir vicissitude, and rule the Night, And Light from Darkness to divide.
Hacker slang is unusually rich in implications of this kind, of overtones and undertones that illuminate the hackish psyche.
Their vivid and wild expression seemed likewise sufficient to illuminate them; it was an expression of scorn and mockery, coinciding with the emotions indicated by his gesture.
Then, addressing her with the single word which constituted the strength of his French vocabulary, and holding up one finger in a manner which appeared to him to illuminate his meaning, “_Combien?_” he abruptly demanded.
Cable along to see for you, and describe and explain and illuminate, a jog through that old quarter is a vivid pleasure.
Quotes with ILLUMINATE (3)
We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.
I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecra…
Nurturing a feeling makes it proliferate. Choose wisely. Joy, kindness, love, & caring will illuminate your life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1979–2012).