illumine
verb (used with or without object)
to illuminate.
have illumined
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present perfectof illumine.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Surveyor I and Lunar Orbiter II have illumined the moon as being little more than an ugly grey rock pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have gone straight to the heart of this mystery, and have thrown light into its obscurest corner, as a dozen flaming torches would have illumined that dark laboratory in the Monastery.
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr
For a moment his ashes must have felt the Promethean fire, and the old smile must have illumined once more the face of death.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
Visions, bright visions of beauty and of love, have illumined thy dark walls; and they, too, have flown—flown before a stern reality, which proclaimed them folly, madness—ay, madness!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
Old Brady could have illumined his death-bed with no brighter light.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read
