verb
- Make lighter or brighter.
- usage: "This lamp lightens the room a bit"
- synonyms: light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate
- Begin to smoke.
- usage: "After the meal, some of the diners lit up"
- To come to rest, settle.
- usage: "Misfortune lighted upon him"
- Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat.
- usage: "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
- Fall to somebody by assignment or lot.
- usage: "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
- Alight from (a horse.
adjective
- Set afire or burning.
- usage: "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker"
- synonyms: lit
- Provided with artificial light.
- usage: "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell"
- synonyms: illuminated, lit, well-lighted
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