Meaning & use
illume
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To light up or illuminate something, typically in a poetic or literary sense.
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Moonlight seemed to illume the entire valley below.
A single candle illumed the small, quiet room.
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A poetic, somewhat archaic shortening of 'illuminate,' rarely used in everyday speech but common in literary or lyrical writing.
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