Usually means: Sheds light on; makes clear.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. illuminates: Merriam-Webster
  2. illuminates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. illuminates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Illuminates, illuminates: Wordnik
  5. illuminates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. illuminates: Wiktionary
  7. illuminates: Dictionary.com
  8. illuminates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. illuminates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illuminates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See illuminate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (illuminate)

verb:  (transitive) To shine light on something.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate something with lights.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To clarify or make something understandable.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make spectacular.
verb:  (intransitive) To glow; to light up.
verb:  (intransitive) To be exposed to light.
verb:  (transitive, military) To direct a radar beam toward.
adjective:  (obsolete) Enlightened, illuminated, made bright.
adjective:  (figurative) Enlightened spiritually, divinely taught or inspired; in technical use, converted, baptized.
adjective:  (archaic) Learned, erudite.
noun:  Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.
▸ Also see illuminate


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