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enlighten Definition


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enlighten
verb enlightened, enlightening
    1. To give more information to someone.
      Thesaurus: instruct, teach, educate, advise, illuminate, inform, indoctrinate, counsel, edify; Antonym: confuse, puzzle.
    2. To free someone from ignorance or superstition.
    3. To make someone aware or uplift them by knowledge or religion.
Derivative: enlightened
adj
    Free from ignorance or superstition
      Thesaurus: educated, literate, cultivated, aware, knowledgeable, wise, informed, sophisticated; liberal, open-minded; Antonym: confused, ignorant.
Derivative: enlightening
adj
    Etymology: Anglo-Saxon inlihtan, from lihtan to light.



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