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lit off

lit off is the simple past and past participle 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 lit off

What is lit off the simple past and past participle of?
Lit off is the simple past and past participle of light off.

Words near lit off in the dictionary

  1. lit fic
  2. lit flick
  3. lit flicks
  4. Lit Hum
  5. lit into
  6. lit off
  7. lit on
  8. lit one's hair on fire
  9. lit out
  10. lit someone's ass up
  11. lit the blue touchpaper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lit 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.

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