verb
- Make lighter or brighter.
- usage: "This lamp lightens the room a bit"
- synonyms: light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate
- Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.
- usage: "Could you clarify these remarks"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
- synonyms: clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
- Add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts.
- synonyms: illuminate
adjective
- Provided with artificial light.
- usage: "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell"
- synonyms: lighted, lit, well-lighted
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