illustrate

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

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