illustrate

present (v1)

illustrate

past (v2)

illustrated

past participle (v3)

illustrated

present participle

illustrating

3rd person singular

illustrates

1. 1.To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.

   • To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
   • We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.

2. 2.To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.

   • The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.
   • Michael Thompson said he had been photographing prison buildings on Wednesday, Dec. 3, to illustrate an article by Tom Reeves […] when an unidentified plainclothes employee of the prison approached him.

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