alit

Verb

alight (third-person singular simple present alights, present participle alighting, simple past and past participle alighted or alit)

1. (also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.

   Synonyms:

   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.

   Synonyms:

   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.
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.
   • But ſtorms of Stones, from the proud Temple's height, / Pour down, and on our batter'd Helms alight.1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 251, lines...
6. (figuratively, intransitive) Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon.

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