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Adjective lit has 2 senses
- illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted - provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell"
Antonym: dark (indirect, via light)
- lighted, lit - set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker"
Noun lit has 1 sense
- literature, lit - the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit"
--1 is a kind of literary study
Verb light has 6 senses
- light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate - make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit"
--1 is one way to lighten, lighten up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- light up, fire up, light - begin to smoke; "After the meal, some of the diners lit up"
--2 is one way to ignite, light
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
=> Somebody ----s something
- alight, light, perch - to come to rest, settle; "Misfortune lighted upon him"
--3 is one way to land, set down
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- ignite, light - cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
--4 is one way to burn, combust
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- fall, light - fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
--5 is one way to fall, return, pass, devolve
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down - get off (a horse)
--6 is one way to descend, fall, go down, come down
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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