Definitions for illume

illume il·lume

Spelling: [ih-loom]
IPA: /ɪˈlum/

Illume is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in illume (eillmu).

Definitions for illume

verb (used with object)

  1. to illuminate.

Origin of illume

First recorded in 1595-1605; short for illumine

Examples for illume

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for illume
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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