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• v  make lighter or brighter
• v  make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
• v  add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
• s  provided with artificial light
  illuminated advertising

• From one side of the terrace, you can watch as the mosque's fairy lights are illuminated, circling it with a corona of gold.
• He marveled at the brightly illuminated replicas of the Eiffel Tower, the Manhattan skyline, the dazzling fountains of Rome.
• An exhibit of jadarite at a museum in Belgrade is artificially illuminated with a green light.

• light
• illume
• illumine
• light up
• illuminate
• clear
• clear up
• shed light on
• crystallize
• crystallise
• crystalize
• crystalise
• straighten out
• sort out
• enlighten
• elucidate
• lighted
• lit
• well-lighted

News & Articles

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• 1963: The Civil Rights Movement’s watershed year
  Fifty years ago this month, two of the chief characteristics of the modern Civil Rights Movement were dramatically, tragically illuminated in Jackson, Miss. by an assassin’s bullet.
  June 17, 2013 - Louisiana Weekly
• Albacete to lead discussion on The St. John's Bible
  The Saint John’s Bible is the first handwritten and illuminated Bible in 500 years — all 73 books produced using medieval techniques and materials. 
  June 14, 2013 - The Canton Repository
• Mercedes-Benz Introduces New Option: The Illuminated Star
  Mercedes-Benz adds a new personalized options to its customers: the Illuminated Star. In this newly released clip, the luxury car maker shows off their unique option, which uses light conductor and LED technology to illuminate the Mercedes emblem in the radiator grill.
  June 13, 2013 - Baller Status

Quotes

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• Elaine Showalter in guardian.co.uk
  The chairwoman of the judging committee, the academic and critic Elaine Showalter, said: "In Things Fall Apart and his other fiction set in Nigeria, Chinua Achebe inaugurated the modern African novel. He also illuminated the path for writers around...
• Barack Obama in Politico
  As an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world,Obama said.
• Brad Pitt in DailyIndia.com
  It certainly illuminated that a certain portion of society is not being looked after. I think it should be one of the major issues of the upcoming campaign,Pitt said.