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Spotlight   /spˈɑtlˌaɪt/   Listen
Spotlight

verb
(past spotlit; past part. spotlit or spotlighted)
1.
Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent.  Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up.
2.
Illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater.





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"Spotlight" Quotes from Famous Books



... as she answered him, and the light from her candle, glowing brightly in a split tomato can, fell clearly upon Mary Standish as the old woman waddled toward them. It was as if a spotlight had been thrown upon the girl suddenly out of a pit of darkness, and something about her, which was not her prettiness or the beauty that was in her eyes and hair, sent a sudden and unaccountable thrill through Alan. It remained with him when they drew back out of gloom and chill into sunshine ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood


Words linked to "Spotlight" :   lamp, set off, illuminate, highlight, play down, light up, background, light, prominence, illume, public eye, illumine, theater light, limelight, bring out, spot


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