illustrate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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. 2

   To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or…

   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. 3

   To shed light upon.

   • Here, when the morn illustrates all the sky.
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   1. 4

      To give renown or honour to

      To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious.

      • Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates.

The neighborhood

• neighborshed light upon