illustrate
To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
Example
“We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.”
Other meanings
To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
“The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.”
To shed light upon.
Synonyms
- instance
Related words
- illustrable
- illustratable
- illustrator
- illustratory
- overillustrate
- reillustrate
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “illustrate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.