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What does illustrate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word illustrate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (obsolete) To shed light upon; to illuminate.
  2. To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
  3. To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
  4. (obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
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If you had to pick just one pop song to illustrate just how great the medium can be, this would be a perfect choice.
Independent roasters can buy Fair Trade and other value-added coffees to illustrate our solidarity with the independent farmers.
We will illustrate this in several conservative portfolios running from basic to fully developed.
Michael will talk about the book and use a lump of stone and a piece of gold to illustrate themes of alchemy.
To illustrate with one example, the work of Hippocrates on the quadrature of lunes is only known to us through Eudemus's History of Geometry.
Some artists are willing and able to create roughs or prototypes to illustrate to a licensee just how well their work would suit products.

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