Definitions for illumes

illumes il·lume

Spelling: [ih-loom]
IPA: /ɪˈlum/

Illumes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in illumes (eillmsu).

Definitions for illumes

verb (used with object)

  1. to illuminate.

Origin of illumes

First recorded in 1595-1605; short for illumine

Examples for illumes

Can one illume a leaden sky,Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high,Not one funereal glimmer pale?

All my faculties tend to self-preservation; there, they converge as rays in a focus; in that focus they illume and—they burn.

But, my young friend, it is not the light of the noon-day sun that ought to illume Christian charity.

I admired the condensed wisdom of this, but, like experience, it only serves to illume the path over which I have passed.

Live in the sunshine, don't live in the gloom, Carry some gladness the world to illume.

Even if you have only one light for ten darknesses, it will be enough to illume them all.

Even so will it be with England; ere ten centuries have rolled away, her sun-like splendour will illume a western world.

Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.

Word Value for illumes
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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