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light into

verb

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from intō
  2. inherited from in-to
  3. formed as light into — “light + into”

Definitions

  1. To set upon or attack.

    • [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."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA