Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

light into

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.26 in modern English

Syllables: light in-to
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To set upon or attack.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"[H]e lit into that horse with his whip."
"[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."
""Father grabbed the two guns and told me to light into the other man. I jumped on him and started choking him.""
"He speaks with more passion than ever, lighting into George W. Bush for fumbling the economy."

Etymology

Phrasal verb from light (“to get down, drop, come”, verb) + into (“against”, preposition).

Word Breakdown

Prefix: light
Suffix: into

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

lights into (present, singular) lighting into (participle, present) lit into (participle, past) lit into (past) lighted into (participle, past) lighted into (past)

Synonyms

assail assault lace into lam into rip into tear into criticize dress down excoriate rebuke reprimand scold

Questions

What does light into mean?: To set upon or attack.
Where does light into come from?: Phrasal verb from light (“to get down, drop, come”, verb) + into (“against”, preposition).

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