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1. Provided with artificial light
   "a brightly lit room";
   - illuminated, lighted, well-lighted
    
2. Set afire or burning
   "a lit firecracker";
   - lighted
    
3. Very drunk
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, bombed, steaming, tanked up, trashed, hammered, wasted, pickled, stonkered [Austral, NZ], juiced [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, mullered [Brit], swacked [N. Amer], out of it [Brit], blitzed, trolleyed [Brit], bladdered [Brit], paralytic [Brit], stewed, liquored up [N. Amer], legless [Brit], stinko, fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

1. The humanistic study of a body of literature
   "he took a course in Russian lit";
   - literature

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

Derived forms: lits, litai

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

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

Encyclopedia: Lit, Sweden