Meaning

To alight, to dismount or get down from..

Definitions by Sense

1. To alight, to dismount or get down from.
2. To alight; to land, to descend and rest.
3. To lighten; to reduce in weight or heaviness.
4. To make light; to illuminate or brighten.

Example Sentences

When I alighten at my destination, I saw them going in the rickshaw.

Her house was barely half a kilometre away from the nearest bus stage; she alightened with ease and wiped the thin layer of sweat that had accumulated on her forehead.

In case the train halts on account of such alert, the patrolling parties should alighten from the running train and be on the look out for the offenders.

The bees always alighten at the bottom of the spike, and, crawling spirally up it, sucked one flower after the other.

Both of the two jays that had just moved flew out of the tree and alightened in the boughs of a nearby cedar.

Even under the best ecological conditions, only a fraction of the flowers on which a bee alightens provide nectar and/or pollen.

I shivered and shook, and would have screqamed in my fright—but the Fiend,—as he seemed to be, —in a hoarse, croaking voice, charged me to keep silence,—saying that I had lain seven years bound for my sin, and that my soul would speedily be sent on an errand to sinners yet on the earth, to warn them from the evil of their ways, —and that, then, my punishment in Purgatory would be alightened.

On the fifth day Mr. Hedly (who first motioned lot-drawing) and another died, whereby their boat was somewhat alightened.

Word Forms

• alightens
• alightening
• alightened

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