alighten
/əˈlaɪtən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make light; to illuminate or brighten.
Example Sentences
- "When I alighten at my destination, I saw them going in the rickshaw."
- "Her house was barely half a kilometre away from the nearest bus stage; she alightened with ease and wiped the thin layer of sweat that had accumulated on her forehead."
- "In case the train halts on account of such alert, the patrolling parties should alighten from the running train and be on the look out for the offenders."
- "The bees always alighten at the bottom of the spike, and, crawling spirally up it, sucked one flower after the other."
- "Both of the two jays that had just moved flew out of the tree and alightened in the boughs of a nearby cedar."
- "Even under the best ecological conditions, only a fraction of the flowers on which a bee alightens provide nectar and/or pollen."