"shed light on" meaning in Anglais

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  "forms": [
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      "form": "shed light"
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    {
      "form": "shed light upon"
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          "ref": "Joel Frohlich,What Happens If You Stick Your Head in a Particle Accelerator?, theatlantic.com, 12 janvier 2017",
          "text": "What would happen if you stuck your body inside a particle accelerator? The scenario seems like the start of a bad Marvel comic, but it happens to shed light on our intuitions about radiation, the vulnerability of the human body, and the very nature of matter."
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      "glosses": [
        "Faire la lumière sur."
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      "word": "clear up"
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      "word": "crystallize"
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      "word": "elucidate"
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    {
      "word": "enlighten"
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    {
      "word": "illuminate"
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    {
      "word": "sort out"
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    {
      "word": "straighten out"
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  "word": "shed light on"
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      "form": "shed light upon"
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  "word": "shed light on"
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