illustrate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To clarify, as by use of examples or comparisons: The editor illustrated the definition with an example sentence.
2. v. To clarify by serving as an example or comparison: The example sentence illustrated the meaning of the word.
3. v. To provide (a publication) with explanatory or decorative features: illustrated the book with colorful drawings.
4. v. Obsolete To illuminate.
5. v. To present a clarification, example, or explanation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To illuminate; make clear, bright, or luminous.
2. To give honor or distinction to; make distinguished or illustrious; glorify.
3. To make plain and conspicuous to the mind; display vividly; also, to make clear or intelligible; elucidate.
4. To elucidate or ornament by means of pictures, drawings, etc. To furnish with pictorial illustrations: as, to illustrate a book.
5. Famous; renowned; illustrious.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete To shed light upon; to illuminate.
2. v. To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
3. v. To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To make clear, bright, or luminous.
2. v. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
3. v. To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.
4. v. To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
5. v. obsolete To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
6. adj. obsolete Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. depict with an illustration
2. v. supply with illustrations
3. v. clarify by giving an example of