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Synonyms for light up
light up
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Princeton's WordNet
light upverb
start to burn with a bright flame
"The coal in the BBQ grill finally lit up"
Synonyms:
clear up, fire up, illuminate, illumine, light, brighten, illume, clearlight, illume, illumine, light up, illuminateverb
make lighter or brighter
"This lamp lightens the room a bit"
Synonyms:
brighten, fire up, enlighten, get down, crystalize, clear up, ignite, shed light on, illumine, illuminate, dismount, perch, sort out, clear, get off, elucidate, alight, crystallise, straighten out, fall, light, crystallize, unhorse, crystalise, illumeclear up, clear, light up, brightenverb
become clear
"The sky cleared after the storm"
Synonyms:
discharge, earn, take in, pull in, wrap up, sack, authorize, pass, make, shed light on, finish up, crystalise, illuminate, acquit, crystalize, fire up, finish off, bring in, polish off, crystallise, illume, gain, mop up, clarify, realise, solve, exculpate, unclutter, clear, elucidate, brighten, authorise, assoil, crystallize, clear up, enlighten, exonerate, straighten out, sack up, top, sort out, lighten, realize, lighten up, light, get through, illumine, netlight upverb
ignite
"The sky lit up quickly above the raging volcano"
Synonyms:
clear up, fire up, illuminate, illumine, light, brighten, illume, clearlight up, fire up, lightverb
begin to smoke
"After the meal, some of the diners lit up"
Synonyms:
brighten, fire up, get down, clear up, ignite, dismount, illumine, illuminate, inflame, perch, clear, get off, alight, stir up, fall, light, wake, unhorse, illume, heat
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#104 | top | |
#132 | make | |
#613 | light | |
#674 | net | |
#907 | clear | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1493 | pass | |
#2027 | heat | |
#2491 | gain | |
#3644 | earn | |
#4774 | wake | |
#4781 | realize | |
#4953 | solve | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#10047 | clarify | |
#10918 | authorize | |
#12748 | realise | |
#15199 | sack | |
#23255 | perch | |
#27242 | ignite | |
#28198 | brighten | |
#28268 | illuminate | |
#31814 | lighten | |
#33465 | enlighten | |
#38869 | authorise | |
#43164 | elucidate | |
#57497 | alight | |
#75991 | dismount | |
#88126 | inflame | |
#93817 | crystallize | |
#95762 | acquit | |
#113449 | exonerate | |
#156842 | illumine | |
#224484 | crystallise | |
#229443 | unclutter | |
#265102 | exculpate | |
#300354 | illume |
How to use light up in a sentence?
I’ll never forget the way Abigail looked at me. It was priceless, it really meant a lot to me seeing her face light up.
People are trying to convert uncertainty into risk by reading too much news, but you're feeding into a set of algorithms that light up your brain like a Vegas casino.
I think the plan today is to do a scan with ink to light up his lungs so that they can get a better picture of whats going on, they want to find out from this culture what the fungus is so that they can specifically give the right medication to attack that fungus.
You could use a constellation of cubesats that would light up at a certain time, if you flew thousands of them in the same formation that could illuminate every 90 minutes in low earth orbit.
We are not sure how this is going to play out for the next four to six months, if... The Delta variant follows this pattern that The Delta variant's taken in other countries, we can expect to see -- particularly the Southern sunbelt states that are getting hit so hard right now -- actually show a really rapid decline in cases probably in two to three weeks. The real challenge is what's going to happen with all the other states where we're seeing increases... If they too light up, then this surge could actually go on well into mid-September or later.
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