ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unlight

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Unlight is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To extinguish, turn off, or dim the light from.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) To extinguish, turn off, or dim the light from.

More Meanings

  1. (literary or poetic) The absence of light; darkness.
  2. (intransitive, now dialectal) To alight; dismount
  3. (rare) Not light (“having little weight”).

Example Sentences

His father, in another room, unlights the lamp and leaves the world alone.
Those of the Unlight is probably Marduk's most traditional black metal recording, and one of my personal favorites.
"The door will only open when you strike it under the unlight of a moon at full dark. And the moon is many days from full dark now." Corydon gasped.
It would be so easy to trace Ian's death back to that match, the one he said he would not unlight if he could. The one that made him appear to be a monster and therefore unfit for romantic love, while also making him rich […]

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include unilluminated, unkindled, lightless, dark, daybeacon, turn out.

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