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• n  the humanistic study of a body of literature
  he took a course in Russian lit
• v  make lighter or brighter
• v  begin to smoke
  After the meal, some of the diners lit up
• v  to come to rest, settle
• v  cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
• v  fall to somebody by assignment or lot
• v  alight from (a horse)
• s  provided with artificial light
  a brightly lit room
• a  set afire or burning
  a lit firecracker

• Big publishers discover that entrepreneurial street-lit authors have written the book on reaching an untapped market.
• The big boats are lit up! "It's all right ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling the people around me to shut their damned mouths.
• Do men have an answer to chick lit? Three new books by and about guys give it a shot.

• literature
• light
• illume
• illumine
• light up
• illuminate
• fire up
• alight
• perch
• ignite
• fall
• unhorse
• dismount
• get off
• get down
• illuminated
• lighted
• well-lighted

• extinguish
• unlighted

News & Articles

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• Santi Cazorla's Arsenal Influence in Stats and Graphics
  Santi Cazorla lit up the Premier League in his first season in an Arsenal shirt. Within a year of his arrival in English football, Cazorla found himself being voted as Arsenal's official Player of the Season by a considerable margin. Not since the initial arrival of Andrey Arshavin has a player quite so small had quite such a big impact. Arsenal fans will be hoping that, unlike Arshavin ...
  June 13, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Love and Hate for Apple’s New Mobile Software
  After Apple demonstrated its new mobile software system, iOS 7, Twitter lit up with reactions from Apple fans, technology journalists and even some former Apple employees. Some absolutely loved the new design, while others despised it.
  June 12, 2013 - New York Times
• Colorado fires
  Fast-moving wildfires lit up central Colorado, forcing thousands from their homes and scorching some 12,000 acres of brush and timber.
  June 12, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• John Travolta in Reuters
  Jett was the most wonderful son that two parents could ever ask for and lit up the lives of everyone he encountered,Travolta said in a statement posted on his website www.travolta.com. "We are heartbroken that our time with him was so...
• Jim Leyland in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  I lit two Marlboros at the same time,Leyland said. "I couldn't sleep. But I feel better that it's over with than I did at 3 in the morning."
• Sam Hornish Jr in USA Today
  I've tried to qualify for these Cup races, and it's kind of lit a little bit of fire in me to see if we can't get to the point where I am competitive,said Hornish, who will try again to make his Nextel Cup debut this weekend at Phoenix...