Meaning & use
alit
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Descended and settled somewhere after flight, or got down from a vehicle (past tense of 'alight').
See it in a sentence
The butterfly alit gently on the edge of the flower pot.
The passengers alit from the train as soon as it stopped.
A note on using this word
A literary word today; in everyday speech, people are far more likely to say 'landed' or 'got off' than 'alit.'
Words with a similar meaning
landedperched
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Words with an opposite meaning
took off
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