"light into" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: lights into [present, singular, third-person], lighting into [participle, present], lit into [past], lighted into [past], lit into [participle, past]
Etymology: Phrasal verb from light (“to get down, drop, come”, verb) + into (“against”, preposition). Etymology templates: {{affix|en|light|into|nocat=1|pos1=verb|pos2=preposition|t1=to get down, drop, come|t2=against}} light (“to get down, drop, come”, verb) + into (“against”, preposition) Head templates: {{en-verb|light<,,lit> into|past2=lighted into}} light into (third-person singular simple present lights into, present participle lighting into, simple past lit into or lighted into, past participle lit into)
  1. (transitive) To set upon or attack. Tags: transitive

Inflected forms

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      "form": "lights into",
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    {
      "form": "lit into",
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      "form": "lighted into",
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        "past"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "1885, Mark Twain, chapter 22, in Huckleberry Finn:",
          "text": "[H]e lit into that horse with his whip.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne of the Island:",
          "text": "[S]he lit into everybody else in the church and gave them a fearful raking down, calling them right out by name and telling them how they all had behaved, and casting up all the quarrels and scandals of the past ten years.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935 April 25, “U.S. Judge and Wife Killed by Bandits”, in Montreal Gazette, retrieved 2010-01-16:",
          "text": "\"Father grabbed the two guns and told me to light into the other man. I jumped on him and started choking him.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 January 13, Diane Roberts, “Graham would make Florida proud”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 2010-01-16:",
          "text": "He speaks with more passion than ever, lighting into George W. Bush for fumbling the economy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "To set upon or attack."
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        "(transitive) To set upon or attack."
      ],
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        {
          "sense": "attack physically",
          "word": "assail"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack physically",
          "word": "assault"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack physically",
          "word": "lace into"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack physically",
          "word": "lam into"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack physically",
          "word": "rip into"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack physically",
          "word": "tear into"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "criticize"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "dress down"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "excoriate"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "lace into"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "lam into"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "rebuke"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "reprimand"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "rip into"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "scold"
        },
        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "tear into"
        }
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "light into"
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      "form": "lit into",
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        "past"
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    {
      "form": "lit into",
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        "1": "light<,,lit> into",
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "text": "[H]e lit into that horse with his whip.",
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        {
          "ref": "1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne of the Island:",
          "text": "[S]he lit into everybody else in the church and gave them a fearful raking down, calling them right out by name and telling them how they all had behaved, and casting up all the quarrels and scandals of the past ten years.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935 April 25, “U.S. Judge and Wife Killed by Bandits”, in Montreal Gazette, retrieved 2010-01-16:",
          "text": "\"Father grabbed the two guns and told me to light into the other man. I jumped on him and started choking him.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 January 13, Diane Roberts, “Graham would make Florida proud”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 2010-01-16:",
          "text": "He speaks with more passion than ever, lighting into George W. Bush for fumbling the economy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set upon or attack."
      ],
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          "set upon",
          "set upon"
        ],
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) To set upon or attack."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "sense": "attack physically",
      "word": "assail"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack physically",
      "word": "assault"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack physically",
      "word": "lace into"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack physically",
      "word": "lam into"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack physically",
      "word": "rip into"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack physically",
      "word": "tear into"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "criticize"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "dress down"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "excoriate"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "lace into"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "lam into"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "rebuke"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "reprimand"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "rip into"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "scold"
    },
    {
      "sense": "attack verbally",
      "word": "tear into"
    }
  ],
  "word": "light into"
}

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