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[ verb ] make lighter or brighter

Examples

"This lamp lightens the room a bit"

Used in print

(Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)

His being and His will - Stevie could not divide God from his Papa - illumined every parish face , turned the choir into a band of angels , and the pulpit into the tollgate to Heaven .

A flash illumined the trees as a crooked bolt twigged in several directions .

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