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illustrates, verb, present, 3rd person singular of illustrate (infinitive).

Verb illustrates, illustrating, illustrated
illustrate - depict with an illustration
		picture, depict, show, render show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
		artistic creation, artistic production, art the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
illustrate - supply with illustrations; "illustrate a book with drawings"
		grace, ornament, adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish be an ornament to; "stars ornamented the Christmas tree"
illustrate - clarify by giving an example of
		exemplify, instance
		expatiate, lucubrate, dilate, exposit, expound, flesh out, elaborate, enlarge, expand become wider; "His pupils were dilated"

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illustrate (Verb)
To shed light upon; to illuminate.
illustrate (Verb)
To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
illustrate (Verb)
To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.

illustrate (v. t.)
To make clear, bright, or luminous.
illustrate (v. t.)
To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
illustrate (v. t.)
To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.
illustrate (v. t.)
To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
illustrate (v. t.)
To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
illustrate (a.)
Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.

illustrate
To provide a book or other publication with drawings and pictures.
illustrate
To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.

illustrate
il-lus′trāt, or il′us-trāt, v.t. to make distinguished: to make clear to the mind: to explain: to explain and adorn by pictures.—adj. (Shak.) renowned.—n. Illustrā′tion, act of making lustrous or clear: act of explaining: that which illustrates: a picture or diagram.—adjs. Illus′trative, Illus′tratory, having the quality of making clear or explaining.—adv. Illus′tratively.—n. Illus′trator.—adj. Illus′trious, morally bright, distinguished: noble: conspicuous: conferring honour.—adv. Illus′triously.—n. Illus′triousness. [L. illustrāre, -ātum, to light up—illustris, prob. in, in, lux, lucis, light.]