Thesaurus:illuminate
English
Verb
Sense: to supply with light
Synonyms
- alight (archaic)
- belight
- beshine (dialect)
- bright [⇒ thesaurus]
- enlighten
- fire
- illume (archaic)
- illuminate
- illumine
- illustrate (obsolete)
- irradiate
- light [⇒ thesaurus]
- lighten
- light up
- luster (obsolete)
- lustrate (obsolete)
- shed light on
- —
- cast light on, throw light on, etc.
- pour light on, shed light on, etc.
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Further reading
- “420. light” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “illuminate” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.