light (sth) up
— phrasal verb with light uk/laɪt/us/laɪt/verb lit or lighted, lit or lighted
(EXPRESSION)
If your face or eyes light up, or if a smile lights up your face, you suddenly look happy:
Rosie's whole face lit up with excitement when she saw the presents.
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Causing pleasure
- agreeable
- all things to all people idiom
- attractive
- banging
- be better than sex idiom
- brighten
- do sb the world of good idiom
- dreamy
- ducky
- enchant
- engaging
- jolly
- keep on the right side of sb idiom
- keep sb sweet idiom
- knock
- leafy
- lighten
- lovely
- quench
- tickle
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(CIGARETTE)
to light a cigarette:
I was lighting up when I noticed a "no smoking" sign.
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Tobacco & smoking
- baccy
- butt
- cheroot
- cigar
- cigarette butt
- cigarette paper
- e-cigarette
- fag
- nicotine
- nicotine patch
- non-smoker
- non-smoking
- pipe
- roll-your-own
- second-hand smoke
- smoke
- smoker
- smoking
- stub
- tobacconist
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