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Alight meaning
To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve. | Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop. | Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.
Example sentences (20)
A Barnsley man who has lived and worked there all his life says he has been forced to close his dealership after yobs set it alight just days after his dad's funeral.
A car set alight on Highmead Road, Ely, Cardiff, during a large scale disorder.
A car was set alight in June 2022, highlighting part of Dubbo's crime problem.
A man threw liquid over a car before it was set alight after a street row escalated in Leicester.
An equally great worry is how such products affect workers in the plants manufacturing them, who may be exposed to heavy ambient PFAS concentrations and may be inhaling them or otherwise ingesting them when they alight on lips, hands, or food.
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A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “We were alerted at 3.15am on Tuesday, 10 October, to reports of a vehicle well alight fire on West Coats Road, Cambuslang.
At around 15:30 hours, all the family members were reclining in their small hut used as a kitchen when it was set alight by the lightning.
A VEHICLE "well alight" was extinguished by fire crews on Cowdenbeath's High Street.
A woman has spoken about how she and her son are lucky to be alive after petrol was allegedly poured through her letterbox and set alight.
But they had never tried to set it alight.
Cars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police after 100 to 150 people gathered in Ely on 22 May, the evening of the crash.
Chiltern Railways said the Bicester Village station will be shut on September 24, with customers travelling from Marylebone told to alight at Bicester North.
Earlier, thick black smoke had billowed from a central university campus in Dakar, where protesters set several buses alight in the afternoon and threw rocks at riot police who responded by firing teargas.
Fire crews were called to the blaze at around 5.30am this morning, finding a second floor unit well alight.
FIREFIGHTERS tackled a “well alight” heath fire in a nature reserve in on Wednesday night.
He faked his suicide by setting another person’s body alight in his cell.
In August, four people were arrested following a series of incidents which took place between Thursday 27 July and Saturday 5 August on the street in which shots were fired on two occasions, and a motorhome set alight on the later date.
In the latest sacrilegious act against the Holy Qur'an, two men set the holy book alight at a protest outside parliament in Stockholm on Monday, according to Press TV.
It had spread, and all six stories of the building were alight.