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light down

light down verb: to dismount; to get off.

Verb

light down (third-person singular simple present lights down, present participle lighting down, simple past and past participle lighted down)

  1. (archaic) To dismount; to get off.
  2. (archaic) To cause to fall or descend; to lower.
    • "How I cursed my selfishness and the folly that had kept me lingering by Ayesha's side while my dear boy lay dying! Alas and alas! how easily the best of us are lighted down to evil by the gleam of a woman's eyes! What a wicked wretch was I!"1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of light down

third-person singular presentlights down
present participlelighting down
past participlelighted down
pastlighted down

Questions about light down

What does light down mean?
Light down means to dismount; to get off.
What part of speech is light down?
Light down is a verb.
What is the past tense of light down?
The past tense of light down is lighted down.

Words near light down in the dictionary

  1. light days
  2. light decade
  3. light decades
  4. light dependent resistor
  5. light dependent resistors
  6. light down
  7. light due
  8. light dues
  9. light echo
  10. light echoes
  11. light echos

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