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light into

light into verb: to set upon or attack.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To set upon or attack.
    • [H]e lit into that horse with his whip.1885, Mark Twain, chapter 22, in Huckleberry Finn
    • [S]he lit into everybody else in the church and gave them a fearful raking down, calling them right out by name and telling them how they all had behaved, and casting up all the quarrels and scandals of the past ten years.1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne of the Island

light into meaning in Malayalam

light into in Malayalam

set on, attack, fall on
കടന്നാക്രമിക്കുക, ആക്രമിക്കുക, ചാടിവീഴുക, ശണ്ഠകൂടുക, കലഹിച്ചുകയറുക, പിടിവലിയിടുക
scold, shrew, nag
ശകാരിക്കുക, ദുർമ്മുഖിയായ സ്ത്രീ, സദാശല്യം ചെയ്യുന്ന സ്ത്രീ, അടക്കവും ഒതുക്കവുമില്ലാത്തവൾ, അലപ്പറച്ചക്കി, പറുതല

Synonyms of light into

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Forms of light into

third-person singular presentlights into
present participlelighting into
past participlelit into
pastlit into
past participlelighted into
pastlighted into

Origin of light into

Phrasal verb from light (“to get down, drop, come”, verb) + into (“against”, preposition).

Questions about light into

What does light into mean?
Light into means to set upon or attack.
What is light into in Malayalam?
Light into in Malayalam is കടന്നാക്രമിക്കുക, ആക്രമിക്കുക, ചാടിവീഴുക. See Light into meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is light into?
Light into is a verb.
What is the past tense of light into?
The past tense of light into is lit into.

Words near light into in the dictionary

  1. light industry
  2. light infantries
  3. light infantry
  4. light intensities
  5. light intensity
  6. light into
  7. light jockey
  8. light jockeys
  9. light line
  10. light lines
  11. light machine gun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: light into (page history and authors); light into (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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