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[ UK /ɪlˈuːm/ ]
VERB
  1. make lighter or brighter
    This lamp lightens the room a bit

How To Use illume In A Sentence

  • So the illume of bedroom lamplight should consider to do design illume by different functional requirement.
  • Whose genius, like the sun, illumed the mighty realms of mind -- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832
  • And that phosphorus fire -- the illume is what the forces call it -- puts that huge light right over the city. CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2003
  •   (Illume is a slang term used for illumination mortar rounds that are used by both sides to turn the night into daytime.)   It was quiet again until another illume went up and there was more shooting. ‘You Can’t Feel Sorry for Yourself’
  • The cabinetry is all chocolaty wood, the countertops a hard Formica blaze of orange, a room that seems dark even when it is blazingly illumed. Excerpt: The Father of All Things by Tom Bissell
  • As Emily Dickinson once wrote, “Better an Ignius Fatuus than no illume at all”! Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated)
  • Should illume the sky with beauty; aged sires with heads of white, The Canadian Elocutionist
  • The “horror of great darkness” is disturbed by voices and illumed by sights. Uncle Silas
  • Oh, it was in his eyes quite an unillumed age, that period of Elizabeth which _we_ see full of suns! and few can see what is close to the eyes though they run their heads against it; the denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
  • In service weapons that generate 45-60 ftlb of recoil are pump shotguns M870 or M500 w/the tactical slug or buckshot rds, M203 40mm grenade launchers especially when shooting illume rounds, and M82 or M107 .50 cal SASR. How Much Kick Can You Take?
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