Usually means: Make bright with light; enlighten.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word illumine:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. illumine: Merriam-Webster
  2. illumine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illumine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. illumine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. illumine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Illumine, illumine: Wordnik
  7. illumine: Wiktionary
  8. illumine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. illumine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. illumine: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Illumine, illumine: Dictionary.com
  12. Illumine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. illumine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. illumine: Rhymezone
  15. Illumine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. illumine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. illumine: FreeDictionary.org
  18. illumine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. illumine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. illumine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illumine: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illumine: Encyclopedia

(Note: See illuminable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  Synonym of illuminate
verb:  (transitive, literary)
verb:  (also figurative) To shine light on (something).
verb:  (also figurative) To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
verb:  To cause (the eyes) to see.
verb:  To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
verb:  (rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
verb:  (art) To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To become bright; to light up.
verb:  To enlighten intellectually.
verb:  Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.

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