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To start (a fire).

Example: We lit the fire to get some heat.

To set fire to; to set burning.

Example: She lit her last match.

To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.

Example: I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.

To become ignited; to take fire.

Example: This soggy match will not light.

To find by chance.

Example: I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.

To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice

To alight; to land or come down.

Example: She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.

To run or light (alight).

Illuminated.

Example: He walked down the lit corridor.

Intoxicated or under the influence of drugs.

Sexually aroused (usually of a female), especially visibly sexually aroused.

Exciting, captivating; fun.

Example: This party is gonna be lit.

Little.

Little.

Colour; blee; dye; stain.

To colour; dye.

The body of all written works.

The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.

(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.

Written fiction of a high standard.

Example: However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008