illustrate > define

verb

• Clarify by giving an example of.
  • synonyms: exemplify, instance
• Depict with an illustration.
• Supply with illustrations.
  • usage: "illustrate a book with drawings"

• (v.t.) To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
• (v.t.) To make clear, bright or luminous.
• (v.t.) To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
• (a.) Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.
• (v.t.) To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
• (v.t.) To make clear, intelligible or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.