Dictionary Entry
illustrate
illustrate is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make clear, bright, or luminous. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make clear, bright, or luminous.
- 2transitive verb
To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
- 3transitive verb
To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.
- 4transitive verb
To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
- 5transitive verb
To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
- 6adjective
Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.
- 7verb
clarify by giving an example of
- 8verb
supply with illustrations
"illustrate a book with drawings"
- 9verb
depict with an illustration
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