light into

Verb

Meaning

light into (third-person singular simple present lights into, present participle lighting into, simple past lit into or lighted into, past participle lit into)

(transitive) To set upon or attack.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

attack assault rebuke reprimand scold assail criticize aggress set upon work over fall upon lash out excoriate pitch into dress down
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Antonyms

garrison presidio guard buckler consecrate hallow
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Examples

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it. Blaise Pascal

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. George Sand

The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations. Isaac Newton

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. Bobby McFerrin

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Mary Shelley

Close letter words and terms

light infantry light infantryman light intensity light intolerance light irradiance light irradiation