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1. Set afire or burning
   "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette";
   - lit
    
2. Provided with artificial light
   "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a well-lighted stairwell";
   - illuminated, lit, well-lighted

1. Make lighter or brighter
   - illume, illumine, light up, illuminate
    
2. Begin to smoke
   "After the meal, some of the diners lit up";
   - light up, fire up
    
3. To come to rest, settle
   - alight, perch
    
4. Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
   "Light a cigarette";
   - ignite
    
5. Be allotted to somebody by assignment or as part of their role
   - fall
    
6. (riding) alight from (a horse)
   - unhorse, dismount, get off, get down, demount

See also: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, alight, burning, enkindled, ignited, in flames, kindled, light, on fire

Type of: burn, combust, come down, descend, devolve, fall, go down, land, lighten, lighten up, pass, return, set down

Antonym: unlighted

Encyclopedia: Light, John