alight
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Is alight a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.Synonyms: alightenalsofigurativelyobsoletetransitive
2. (intransitive)Examples: "He alighted from his horse."; "Passengers are alighting from the carriage."; "Madam, there is a-lighted at your gate / A yong Venetian, one that comes before / To ſignifie th'approaching of his Lord, / From whom he bringeth ſenſible regreets; […]"Synonyms: alighten, light, disembark, debark, get off, get out, unlightintransitive
3. (intransitive)Examples: "A flying bird alights upon a tree."; "Snow alights on a roof."; "His fearefull freends vveare out the vvofull night, / Ne dare to vveepe, nor ſeeme to vnderſtand / The heauie hap, vvhich on them is alight, / Affraid, leaſt to themſelues the like miſhappen might."alsofigurativelyintransitive
4. (intransitive)archaicintransitive
5. (intransitive)Examples: "But ſtorms of Stones, from the proud Temple's height, / Pour down, and on our batter'd Helms alight."archaicintransitive
6. (intransitive)figurativelyintransitive
adj (English)
1. (figuratively) Aglow with activity or emotion.Examples: "Her face was alight with happiness."; "But such a fierce, little, rapid, sparkling, energetic, she-devil I never beheld. She was alight and flaming, all the time."alsoarchaicfigurativelynot-comparabletransitive
adv (English)
1. (also figuratively) Chiefly in set alight: in flames, on fire; aflame.Examples: "Each chapel had its saintly shrine, hung around with offerings; its picture above the altar, although closely veiled, if by any painter of renown; and its hallowed tapers, burning continually, to set alight the devotion of the worshippers."alsoarchaicfigurativelynot-comparabletransitive
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