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retroilluminate

retroilluminate verb: to illuminate by passing light through it from behind.

Verb

retroilluminate (third-person singular simple present retroilluminates, present participle retroilluminating, simple past and past participle retroilluminated)

  1. (transitive) To illuminate by passing light through it from behind.

Forms of retroilluminate

third-person singular presentretroilluminates
present participleretroilluminating
past participleretroilluminated
pastretroilluminated

Origin of retroilluminate

From retro- + illuminate.

Questions about retroilluminate

What does retroilluminate mean?
Retroilluminate means to illuminate by passing light through it from behind.
What part of speech is retroilluminate?
Retroilluminate is a verb.
What is the past tense of retroilluminate?
The past tense of retroilluminate is retroilluminated.

Words near retroilluminate in the dictionary

  1. retrohepatic
  2. retrohilar
  3. retrohippocampal
  4. retrohome
  5. retrohoming
  6. retroilluminate
  7. retroilluminated
  8. retroilluminates
  9. retroilluminating
  10. retroillumination
  11. retroincompetent

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