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Meaning of light down | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To dismount; to get off.
    archaic
  2. To cause to fall or descend; to lower.
    archaic

Examples

“"How I cursed my selfishness and the folly that had kept me lingering by Ayesha's side while my dear boy lay dying! Alas and alas! how easily the best of us are lighted down to evil by the gleam of a woman's eyes! What a wicked wretch was I!"”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

light into light off light on light one's hair on fire light out light someone's ass up

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