Usually means: Depicts or explains through visual representation.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word illustrates:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. illustrates: Merriam-Webster
  2. illustrates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. illustrates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Illustrates, illustrates: Wordnik
  5. illustrates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. illustrates: Wiktionary
  7. illustrates: Dictionary.com
  8. illustrates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. illustrates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illustrates: Legal dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See illustrate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (illustrate)

verb:  (obsolete) To shed light upon.
verb:  (figurative) To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
verb:  To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
verb:  (obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious.
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