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lit upon

lit upon is the simple past and past participle of light upon.

Meaning of light upon

Verb

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

  1. To find or think of something unexpectedly; to come upon something by accident.
    • [...] Yojo had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say, Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest wholly with...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 75

Questions about lit upon

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

Words near lit upon in the dictionary

  1. lit up a room
  2. lit up like a Christmas tree
  3. lit up someone's ass
  4. lit up the room
  5. lit up the tote
  6. lit upon
  7. lit'l
  8. lit'rally
  9. lit-fic
  10. lit-house
  11. lit-houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lit upon (page history and authors); light upon (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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