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
Through his kindness, Gottfried Keller, Konrad Ferdinand Meyer and other authors have illumined many dreary days of my cell life.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman
Just as you looked when you spoke about two people who have illumined each other, so that they turn their great anguish of loving upon the race….
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
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
His doom, hanging over them like a black cloud, stifled all those gleams of enthusiasm which normally would have illumined such a conversation.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
