Alight
31alight on/upon — [phrasal verb] alight on/upon (something) : to see, notice, or think of (something) Her eye/eyes alighted on a strange man in the crowd. a speaker who easily alights upon topics that interest a wide audience • • • Main Entry: ↑alight …
32alight upon — alight (up)on (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb Archaic. To find or meet by chance: bump into, chance on (or upon), come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), light on (or upon), run across, run into, stumble on (or upon), tumble on.… …
33alight from — phr verb Alight from is used with these nouns as the object: ↑carriage, ↑train …
34alight — Synonyms and related words: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, ardent, bathed with light, bespangled, blazing, bright, brightened, burning, candent, candescent, candlelit, climb down, comburent, come down, come in, come to land, conflagrant …
35alight — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. descend, get off, land; dismount; arrive, disembark. See arrival, descent. adj. glowing, lighted; on fire, burning. See light, heat. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. settle, land, light. III (Roget …
36alight — a·light || É™ laɪt v. get off (bus, horse, etc.); land; encounter, come upon by chance adj. lit up, illuminated; aflame …
37alight — v. n. 1. Stop or rest (after flight), perch, drop, settle, lodge. 2. Dismount, descend, get down …
38alight — I v 1. get off, disembark, debark, deplane, detrain, debus; pile off, pile out. 2. land, touch down, settle down, light upon, pitch upon, descend upon, drop down on, come to rest upon; perch, lodge, settle, settle on, descend and settle. 3.… …
39alight — Kū (as a bird or plane on the ground); kau (as a bird on a branch) …
40alight upon — Synonyms and related words: blunder upon, bump into, chance upon, come across, come among, come down on, come on, come up against, come upon, confront, descend upon, discover serendipitously, drop on, encounter, fall across, fall among, fall foul …
