illumine
verb (used with or without object)
to illuminate.
illumining
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present participleof illumine.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Most writers were unable to see life whole, and unsatisfied with illumining only fragments of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
His whole appearance was decidedly ordinary, not to say vulgar, and even the unconcealed triumph now illumining his countenance could set no other impress on it.
From Success and How He Won It by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
The king rose up, with a broad smile illumining his wrinkled face, and said, with his glass to his lips, "Capt'n, and Capt'n's friend, I glad to see you."
From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood
May sat spell-bound; looking at him fixedly, and with that dawn of clear-sightedness rapidly illumining many things, to her unspeakable consternation.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
The moon waxed slowly in brightness, illumining the two figures.
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams
