illumine
verb (used with or without object)
to illuminate.
had illumined
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past perfectof illumine.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The flash had illumined the waters and revealed the clear outlines of the casemates with their black mouths of steel gaping through the portholes.
From The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis by Thomas Dixon
She sighed, looked down at Charles, and he saw that the light of relief which had illumined her face had already died down.
From The Hills of Refuge A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
Louisa, looking across at Luke, saw that to him it meant the latter, and that some of the new, dazzling light had illumined the darkness of his soul.
From The Heart of a Woman by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Then, as if a flash of light had illumined the meaning of those words, he started.
From A Little World by George Manville Fenn
She seemed to say to herself, in the words of two favorite German mottoes, which she had illumined and placed on the wall over her bed, Geduld, Mein Herz!
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
