Word.ws English Dictionary

lighting off

lighting off is the present participle and gerund of light off.

Meaning of light off

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To light the fire on a gas boiler to turn it on.
  2. (intransitive) To ignite properly and begin functioning.

Questions about lighting off

What is lighting off the present participle and gerund of?
Lighting off is the present participle and gerund of light off.

Words near lighting off in the dictionary

  1. lighting a fire under
  2. lighting along
  3. lighting down
  4. lighting engineer
  5. lighting into
  6. lighting off
  7. lighting on
  8. lighting one's hair on fire
  9. lighting out
  10. lighting rig
  11. lighting rigs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lighting off (page history and authors); light off (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lighting off.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lighting_off. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.