alight
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verb- 1.
(also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive)(transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.
Đồng nghĩa: alighten
- 2.
(intransitive)Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.
He alighted from his horse.
Passengers are alighting from the carriage.
Đồng nghĩa: alighten, light, disembark, debark, get off, get out, unlight
- 3.
(also, figuratively, intransitive)Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.
A flying bird alights upon a tree.
Snow alights on a roof.
- 4.
(archaic, intransitive)To come down or go down; to descend.
- 5.
(archaic, intransitive)Often followed by on or upon: of a blow, something thrown, etc.: to land heavily.
- 6.
(figuratively, intransitive)Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon.
- 7.
(intransitive, obsolete)To arrive.
- 8.
(also, archaic, figuratively, transitive)To cast light on (something); to illuminate, to light up.
Đồng nghĩa: alight, belight, beshine, bright, enlighten, fire, illume, illuminate, illumine, illustrate, irradiate, light, lighten, light up, luster, lustrate, shed light on
- 9.
(also, archaic, figuratively, transitive)To set light to (something); to set (something) on fire; to ignite, to light.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(also, archaic, figuratively, not comparable, transitive)Burning, lit, on fire.
The burning embers and the dry wind quickly set the whole neighbourhood alight.
The sticks were damp and wouldn’t catch alight.
- 2.
(also, archaic, figuratively, not comparable, transitive)Often followed by with: shining with light; luminous, radiant; also, brightly coloured; vivid.
Đồng nghĩa: aglow, alight, beamful, beamsome, beamy, brilliant, effulgent, glowing, illuminating, lambent, lighted, lit, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luminant, luminiferous, luminous, lustrous, orient, profulgent, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny
- 3.
(also, archaic, figuratively, not comparable, transitive)Aglow with activity or emotion.
Her face was alight with happiness.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
(also, archaic, figuratively, not comparable, transitive)(also figuratively) Chiefly in set alight: in flames, on fire; aflame.
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From Middle English alighten, from a merger of: