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enlighten🔊

To supply with light.

📑 Synonyms: illumine illuminate

(figurative) To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to.

💬 Quotations
There was a warning sulkiness in the manner of this speech, which admonished Mr Pecksniff that his dear friend was not to be trifled with or fenced off, and that he must either return a straight–forward reply to his question, or plainly give him to understand that he declined to enlighten him upon the subject to which it referred.
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