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inlight

inlight verb: to shine.

Verb

inlight (third-person singular simple present inlights, present participle inlighting, simple past and past participle inlighted)

  1. (intransitive) To shine.
  2. (transitive) To give light to; enlighten.
    • […] am not what I would wish to be a good Christian but I pray to God to inlight my mind and make me what I should be.1972, Atlanta Historical Society, Atlanta historical bulletin
    • […] our cooperative segmentation method is not significantly longer than -edge or -region segmentation separately while explaining the three principles in more details in the following of this paper, we will inlight this major point.1993, Andrew G. Tescher, Applications of digital image processing XV, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers

Forms of inlight

third-person singular presentinlights
present participleinlighting
past participleinlighted
pastinlighted

Origin of inlight

From Middle English inlighten, from Old English inlīhtan, inlȳhtan, inlēohtan (“to enlighten, light up”), from Proto-Germanic *inliuhtijaną (“to lighten, illuminate”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“to shine”), equivalent to in- + light. Cognate with Dutch inlichten (“to enlighten, inform”), Old High German inliuhten (“to enlighten, illuminate”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (inliuhtjan, “to enlighten, illuminate”). Compare also Middle English anlīhten, from Old English onlȳhtan (id.). More at in-, light.

Words formed from inlight

Questions about inlight

What does inlight mean?
Inlight means to shine.
What part of speech is inlight?
Inlight is a verb.
What is the past tense of inlight?
The past tense of inlight is inlighted.

Words near inlight in the dictionary

  1. inlettings
  2. inlibration
  3. inlier
  4. inlierness
  5. inliers
  6. inlight
  7. inlighted
  8. inlighten
  9. inlightens
  10. inlighting
  11. inlights

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