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What is another word for illumines?

Pronunciation: [ɪlˈuːma͡ɪnz] (IPA)

The word "illumines" is primarily used as a verb which means to light up or to brighten something. There are various synonyms for the word "illumines" including illuminate, lighten, brighten, radiate, shine, and beam. The word "illuminate" means the same as "illumines" and refers to a light source being used to light up an area or to light up an object. Similarly, "lighten" is a synonym for "illumines" which refers to making something appear brighter or less dark. "Radiate" and "shine" both suggest emitting light or brightening a space whereas "beam" typically refers to a focused, directed source of light.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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The sunshine illumines the old grey church before him, and falls on the low green mounds, almost level with the sward, which cover his ancestors.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
"We must pity those who live for an illusion as well as those whose imagination has not known how to create an ideal, whose beauty illumines their efforts.
"Common Sense Subtitle: How To Exercise It"
Yoritomo-Tashi
She welcomes him as the Good Genius: as genius of the kindly, though purifying humour, which, like summer lighting, illumines, but does not destroy.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr

Famous quotes with Illumines

  • The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
    Pierre Loti
  • Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
    Martin Luther King
  • History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
    Cicero
  • Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.
    Coleridge
  • The sun opens the lotuses, the moon illumines the beds of water-lilies, the cloud pours forth its water unasked: even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others.
    Bhartrihari

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