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单词 illume
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Definition of illume in English:

illume

verb ɪˈl(j)uːmiˈlo͞om
[with object]literary
  • Light up; illuminate.

    sparks from candles illume our faces
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He covered his eyes, not yet used to the blinding light, but just as quickly uncovered them, for in the instant that the room had been illumed, the contents of room had been revealed.
    • Shama, the bright candle, the eternal enchantress in Urdu poetry that claims the lives of hundreds of moths, her victims, came into AB's life to illume it with love.

Origin

Late Middle English: abbreviation of illumine.

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom
 
 

Definition of illume in US English:

illume

verbiˈlo͞om
[with object]literary
  • Light up; illuminate.

    sparks from candles illume our faces
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He covered his eyes, not yet used to the blinding light, but just as quickly uncovered them, for in the instant that the room had been illumed, the contents of room had been revealed.
    • Shama, the bright candle, the eternal enchantress in Urdu poetry that claims the lives of hundreds of moths, her victims, came into AB's life to illume it with love.

Origin

Late Middle English: abbreviation of illumine.

 
 
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