All 4 Uses
illustrate
in
Growing Up, by Baker
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- Rising from the table, Uncle Hal yanked his belt off to illustrate.
Chpt 8 *illustrate = help make clear
- One evening at supper he told a story illustrating his refusal to tolerate the insolence of the lower classes.†
Chpt 8
- Eight or nine other students turned up, we took our seats, and a burly red-headed man sat on the parlor windowsill and illustrated the use of the banjo pick.†
Chpt 9
- His talk was being illustrated with hand movements, as pilots' conversations always were, hands executing little loops and rolls in the air.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(illustrate as in: as illustrated by this example) to help make clear -- typically by example
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(2)
(illustrate as in: an illustrated children's book) to draw pictures (or provide photographs) to accompany a book or other writing
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)