Thesaurus / throw light on
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synonyms for throw light on
- clarify
- construe
- decipher
- depict
- describe
- enact
- explain
- illustrate
- portray
- read
- solve
- translate
- understand
- view
- adapt
- annotate
- comment
- commentate
- decode
- delineate
- elucidate
- exemplify
- explicate
- expound
- gather
- gloss
- image
- improvise
- limn
- mimic
- paraphrase
- perform
- picture
- play
- reenact
- render
- represent
- take
- make of
- spell out
- resolve
- formulate
- clear up
- spell out
- simplify
- analyze
- interpret
- define
- delineate
- elucidate
- settle
- illuminate
- illustrate
- break down
- draw a picture
- make perfectly clear
- make plain
- shed light on
- straighten out
- exemplify
- expound
- illuminate
- get across
- clear up
- decode
- explicate
- enlighten
- prove
- clear
- gloss
- annotate
- clarify
- unfold
- demonstrate
- interpret
- illustrate
- spell out
- draw a picture
- make perfectly clear
- make plain
- make see daylight
- shed light on
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How to use throw light on in a sentence
If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENSBehold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDShe did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
BOYS AND GIRLS BOOKSHELF; A PRACTICAL PLAN OF CHARACTER BUILDING, VOLUME I (OF 17)VARIOUSMr. Jones swung round a large iron key he held in his hand, and light dawned upon him.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODDistance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEThe faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUAnd it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRThey were never refused, for their recipients looked upon them much in the light of a royal command.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSI am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSThe case may be kept in a light position, and when once under way it will rarely need any additional water.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINWORDS RELATED TO THROW LIGHT ON
- annotating
- clarifying
- clear up
- clearing
- decoding
- demonstrating
- drawing a picture
- enlightening
- exemplifying
- explicating
- expounding
- getting across
- glossing
- illuminating
- illustrating
- interpreting
- making perfectly clear
- making plain
- making seeing daylight
- proving
- shedding light on
- spelling out
- throwing light on
- unfolding
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