illustrate
/ˈɪl.əˌstɹeɪt/ verb B2- To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison. · We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.
- To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features. · The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.
He/she/it illustrates · Past illustrated · Past participle illustrated · -ing form illustrating
Verb forms
- Base form
- illustrate
- He/she/it
- illustrates
- Past
- illustrated
- Past participle
- illustrated
- -ing form
- illustrating
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When Prissy Andrews, attired in a new pink-silk waist with a string of pearls about her smooth white throat and real carnations in her hair--rumor whispered that the master had sent all the way to town for them for her--“climbed the slimy ladder, dark without one ray of light,” Anne shivered in luxurious sympathy; when the choir sang “Far Above the Gentle Daisies” Anne gazed at the ceiling as if it were frescoed with angels; when Sam Sloane proceeded to explain and illustrate “How Sockery Set a Hen” Anne laughed until people sitting near her laughed too, more out of sympathy with her than with amusement at a selection that was rather threadbare even in Avonlea; and when Mr.
No case, however, in which Holmes was engaged has ever illustrated the value of his analytical methods so clearly or has impressed those who were associated with him so deeply.
Eschewing the ostentatious, illustrated dust jackets of the era, Young devised a brilliantly minimalist, color-coded grid utilizing the elegantly modern Gill Sans typeface.
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