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shed light on

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Verb1.shed light on - make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, sort out, enlighten, straighten out, clear up, clear
clarify, clear up, elucidate - make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"
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She was the smile that shed light on all round her.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
but as the sun was rising from the fair sea {24} into the firmament of heaven to shed light on mortals and immortals, they reached Pylos the city of Neleus.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
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