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il⋅lume

[i-loom]
–verb (used with object), -lumed, -lum⋅ing. Archaic.
to illuminate.

Origin:
1595–1605; short for illumine
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il·lume   (ĭ-lōōm')   
tr.v.   il·lumed, il·lum·ing, il·lumes
To illuminate.

[Short for illumine (probably on the model of French verbs in -lumer, to light up, such as allumer, to light).]
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