alit

[ uh-lit ]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of alight ¹.

alit

/ əˈlɪt /

verb

1. a rare past tense and past participle of alight 1

Example Sentences

A belated song-sparrow alit on one of the old guns near them, and sang thinly for a moment or two.

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It flew circling among the crags, and once I thought it had passed seaward; but it came again, and alit on a boulder.

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Alit et ditat is the inscription which stands, rightly and properly, on the front of the building.

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Mrs. Baring said that when Plonplon, commonly called Fatalit, was ill, the people said he was Fat alit.

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We alit before a stately hermitage, set amidst the evergreen trees of well-kept grounds.

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Related Words

• descend
• disembark
• get off
• perch
• touch down