"light down" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: lights down [present, singular, third-person], lighting down [participle, present], lighted down [participle, past], lighted down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lights down|lighting down|lighted down|lighted down}} light down (third-person singular simple present lights down, present participle lighting down, simple past and past participle lighted down)
  1. (archaic) To dismount; to get off. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-light_down-en-verb-MfpibTvN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "down", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "down": 73 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 62 38 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 79 21
  2. (archaic) To cause to fall or descend; to lower. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-light_down-en-verb-fBGv1wD~

Inflected forms

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        "(archaic) To dismount; to get off."
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          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"How I cursed my selfishness and the folly that had kept me lingering by Ayesha's side while my dear boy lay dying! Alas and alas! how easily the best of us are lighted down to evil by the gleam of a woman's eyes! What a wicked wretch was I!\"",
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        "To cause to fall or descend; to lower."
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        "(archaic) To cause to fall or descend; to lower."
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        "(archaic) To dismount; to get off."
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        "(archaic) To cause to fall or descend; to lower."
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