"light into" meaning in English

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      "form": "lit into",
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      "form": "lighted into",
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          "ref": "1885, Mark Twain, chapter 22, in Huckleberry Finn",
          "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.",
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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        "To set upon or attack."
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          "attack",
          "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"
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        {
          "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"
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        {
          "sense": "attack verbally",
          "word": "dress down"
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        {
          "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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      "tags": [
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  "word": "light into"
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        {
          "ref": "1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne of the Island",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "text": "He speaks with more passion than ever, lighting into George W. Bush for fumbling the economy.",
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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"
    },
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      "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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