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lit
1[ lit ]
adjective
- Slang. under the influence of liquor or narcotics; intoxicated (usually followed by up ).
Today's rally was really lit!
lit
2[ lit ]
verb
- a simple past tense and past participle of light 3.
lit
3[ lit ]
noun
- literature:
a college course in English lit.
lit
4[ lit ]
noun
lit.
5abbreviation for
- liter; liters.
- literal.
- literally.
- literary.
- literature.
Lit.
6abbreviation for
- (in Italy) lira; lire.
lit.
1abbreviation for
- literal(ly)
- literary
- literature
Word History and Origins
Origin of lit1
Origin of lit2
Example Sentences
The convergence of these signs lit Morris up like a firecracker.
She retrieved a cigarette from her purse and lit it without moving her face away from the screen.
The church groups make the displays, and the big solstice, I mean, Christmas, tree can be lit after all.
The Hipgnosis founders took a quick look at the strangely-lit photos of contorted bodies….
When it turned night, the seven dwarfs returned home from their work and lit their seven little candles.
Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.
A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
Groping to the chimney-place with the aid of his matches, Mr. Collingwood found the candle and lit it.
She lit another cigarette, and for a few moments looked silently out of the window at the darkening woods beyond the lawn.
When he was gone, Isaacson returned to his sitting-room upstairs and lit a nargeeleh pipe.
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