auréoler means “surround with a halo”

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Un réverbère auréole la place la nuit.

A streetlamp halos the square at night.

A person or thing surrounded by a luminous halo that makes it stand out.

éclairer: Make a direction or place brighter by directing light onto it.
entourer: Enclose something by surrounding it completely.

Entourer quelque chose d'un cercle ou d'une lueur, au sens propre ou au sens figuré, pour le mettre en valeur.

French auréoler derives from auréole with the verb-forming suffix -er, while auréole comes from Latin aureola, meaning a small golden halo.

Auréoler is a transitive verb, so the highlighted person or thing is its direct object without a preposition.