Definition for Illumine:

• To make bright; enlighten.

Synonyms for Illumine:

• n.

  •
  • glare,
  • gleam,
  • irradiate,
  • glow,
  • catch the light,
  • flare,
  • flash.
  •
  • explain,
  • clarify,
  • interpret.
  •
  • teach.

• v.

  •blaze (verb)
  • fulgurated,
  • fulgurates,
  • bursted out.
  •brighten (verb)
  • intensify,
  • burnish,
  • lighten.
  •enlighten (verb)
  • up lifting,
  • in spirited,
  • in spiriting,
  • dis closing,
  • give lowdown,
  • dis-closes,
  • gave the lowdown,
  • gave the word,
  • dis closes,
  • up lifted,
  • in-forming,
  • gives word,
  • in-forms,
  • up dates,
  • in-spirit,
  • up-lifting,
  • putting on to,
  • gives lowdown,
  • dis-closed,
  • causing understand,
  • causes understand,
  • giving the word,
  • up-dates,
  • in spirit,
  • puts on to,
  • in form,
  • up-lifted,
  • causes to understand,
  • gives the lowdown,
  • causing to understand,
  • in-spiriting,
  • pre-aching,
  • in forming,
  • letted in on,
  • in-spirited,
  • up date,
  • pre aching,
  • pre-ached,
  • in-spirits,
  • lets in on,
  • dis-closing,
  • opens up,
  • dis-close,
  • up-date,
  • in forms,
  • gave word,
  • up lift,
  • pre ached,
  • caused to understand,
  • puts to,
  • up-lift,
  • giving word,
  • up dating,
  • letting in on,
  • up lifts,
  • up-dating,
  • up dated,
  • up-lifts,
  • caused understand,
  • up-dated,
  • re veals,
  • re-veal,
  • cause understand,
  • gives the word,
  • giving lowdown,
  • re-veals,
  • dis closed,
  • giving the lowdown,
  • co-unselling,
  • putting to,
  • dis close,
  • gave lowdown,
  • co unselling.
  •explain (verb)
  • elucidate.
  •illume (verb)
  • ex pounding,
  • ex pounded,
  • up lights,
  • de fining,
  • ex plains,
  • ex-plained,
  • gives insight,
  • shedding light on,
  • ex-pounded,
  • giving insight,
  • ex plained,
  • up-light,
  • de fines,
  • up light,
  • up-lighting,
  • ex-pressing,
  • ex pressing,
  • ex plain,
  • uplighting,
  • ex plaining,
  • uplighted,
  • de fined,
  • de fine,
  • up-lighted,
  • ex-plain,
  • ex-pounding,
  • up lighting,
  • ex-pounds,
  • ex-press,
  • ex-plains,
  • de-fining,
  • de-fines,
  • de-fined,
  • gave insight,
  • ex pound,
  • de-fine,
  • ex pressed,
  • ex pounds,
  • up-lights,
  • ex press,
  • sheds light on,
  • ex-plaining,
  • up lighted,
  • ex-pound.
  •illuminate (verb)
  • hits with light,
  • hitting with a light,
  • limelighted,
  • hitting with light,
  • limelighting,
  • hit with light,
  • hits with a light.
  •radiate (verb)
  • dis tributes,
  • dis-tributes,
  • dis tribute,
  • shoots out,
  • dis-tribute.
  •shine (verb)
  • be dazzling,
  • gave light,
  • be-dazzle,
  • be-dazzling,
  • be dazzles,
  • be-dazzles,
  • be-dazzled,
  • gives light,
  • giving light,
  • be dazzle,
  • emitted light.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • edify.
  •brighten
  • lit up,
  • buff up,
  • light up,
  • grow sunny,
  • spiffed up,
  • punch up,
  • buffs up,
  • lighted up,
  • spiff up.
  •illume
  • give insight,
  • uplights,
  • shed light on,
  • uplight.

Antonyms for Illumine:

• v.

  • explain
    confuse.
  • light up
    dull, darken, obscure.
  • Other antonyms:
    extinguish, perplex, blacken, put out, cover, puzzle, snuff, douse, becloud, dim, shroud, obfuscate, quench, cloud, veil.

Illumine Sentence Examples:

• The glowing phrases of the President's noble deliverance illumine the horizon and make clearer than ever the goal we are striving to reach.

• Where the vision is but mirage, even there it is a symbol of our goal; where it stands fast and true, for however brief a moment, it can illumine, and should determine the whole of our lives.