Illuminate is used as a verb. She hoped telling her side of the story would help illuminate what actually happened. The room began to illuminate.
This Tiffany lamp will illuminate our library quite nicely.
He could not illuminate the passageway because his torch was not bright enough.
I needed a light to illuminate the porch.Hopefully his speech will illuminate the politician's beliefs.
We bought a new lamp to illuminate the living room. Some dark secrets in government require a free press to illuminate them.
There have been many assaults near the cinema at night so the council put up lights to illuminate the area.
The bright lights were used to illuminate the sign.
I am taking a class to learn how to illuminate a manuscript. This street light will illuminate part of the alleyway.
illuminate is the root word of illuminating
light up
Darken
illuminate
what is the prefix for illminate