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enlighten
Overview of verb enlighten
The verb enlighten has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. enlighten, edify -- (make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal")
2. enlighten, irradiate -- (give spiritual insight to; in religion)
3. clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate -- (make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault")
Grep of noun enlighten
enlightened
enlightenment
Antonyms of verb enlighten
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb enlighten
3 senses of enlighten
Sense 1
enlighten, edify
=> teach, learn, instruct
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 2
enlighten, irradiate
=> prophesy, vaticinate
=> predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
=> guess, venture, pretend, hazard
=> speculate
=> reason
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sense 3
clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
=> explain, explicate
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb enlighten
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb enlighten
3 senses of enlighten
Sense 1
enlighten, edify
=> teach, learn, instruct
Sense 2
enlighten, irradiate
=> prophesy, vaticinate
Sense 3
clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
'Cause To' of verb enlighten
Derived Forms of verb enlighten
1 of 3 senses of enlighten
Sense 1
enlighten, edify
RELATED TO>(noun) enlightenment#1
=> enlightenment
Domain of verb enlighten
Domain Terms of verb enlighten
Familiarity of verb enlighten
enlighten used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb enlighten
3 senses of enlighten
Sense 1
enlighten, edify
EX: The performance is likely to enlighten Sue
Sense 2
enlighten, irradiate
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb enlighten
3 senses of enlighten
Sense 1
enlighten, edify
> teach, learn, instruct
=> train, develop, prepare, educate
=> indoctrinate
=> drill
=> catechize, catechise
=> reinforce, reward
=> spoonfeed
=> induct
=> mentor
=> tutor
=> unteach
=> unteach
=> ground
=> lecture, talk
=> coach, train
=> enlighten, edify
=> condition
Sense 2
enlighten, irradiate
> prophesy, vaticinate
=> vaticinate
=> enlighten, irradiate
Sense 3
clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
> clarify, clear up, elucidate
=> demystify
=> clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
=> elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> disambiguate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb enlighten
Sense 1
enlighten, edify
=> teach, learn, instruct
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Sense 2
enlighten, irradiate
=> prophesy, vaticinate
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Sense 3
clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
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Grep of verb enlighten
enlighten
Grep of adj enlighten
enlightened
enlightening
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