| 单词 | light on or upon something |
| 释义 | 1 (phrasal verb) Her eyes lit on the smashed vase on the floor. Synonyms settle The birds settled less than two hundred paces away. land The jet landed after a flight of just under three hours. perch She perched on the corner of the desk. alight A thrush alighted on a branch of the pine tree. 2 (phrasal verb) Definition to discover by chance the kind of thing that philosophers lighted upon Synonyms come across find The police also found a pistol. discover The suitcase was discovered on a roadside outside the city. encounter Did you encounter anyone on your walk? stumble on hit upon happen upon Additional synonymsin the sense of alight Definition to land A thrush alighted on a branch of the pine tree. Synonyms land, light, settle, come down, descend, perch, touch down, come to rest in the sense of discover Definition to find after study or search The suitcase was discovered on a roadside outside the city. Synonyms find, come across, uncover, track down, unearth, turn up, dig up, come upon, chance on, stumble on, bring to light, light upon in the sense of encounter Definition to meet (someone) unexpectedly Did you encounter anyone on your walk? Synonyms meet, confront, come across, run into (informal), bump into (informal), run across, come upon, chance upon, meet by chance, happen on or upon Nearby words of |
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