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1. Flaming as it burns
   "forests set alight by lightning"; "candles alight on the tables";
   - ablaze, afire [literary], aflame, aflare [rare], on fire, burning, in flames

1. To come to rest, settle
   - light, perch
    
2. Come down
   "the birds alighted";
   - climb down

Derived forms: alit, alighted, alighting, alights

See also: lighted, lit, mount

Type of: come down, descend, fall, go down, land, set down, sink

Encyclopedia: Alight