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illustrate
UK /ˈɪl.jʊˌstɹeɪt/ US /ˈɪl.əˌstɹeɪt/
verb 4
Definitions
verb
1
To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.
To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
2
To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.
Michael Thompson said he had been photographing prison buildings on Wednesday, Dec. 3, to illustrate an article by Tom Reeves […] when an unidentified plainclothes employee of the prison approached him.
3
To shed light upon.
Here, when the morn illustrates all the sky.
4
To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious.
Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates.
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