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adjective
  1. Having little weight; not heavy: lightweight, weightless. Idiom: light as a feather. See heavy
  2. Of small intensity: gentle, moderate, slight, soft. See strong
  3. Requiring little effort or exertion: easy, moderate. See easy
  4. Amusing but essentially empty and frivolous: frothy. See surface
  5. Free from care or worry: blithe, carefree, debonair, lighthearted. See careful, happy
  6. Marked by an absence of conventional restraint in sexual behavior; sexually unrestrained: easy, fast, libertine, loose, wanton, whorish. See sex
verb
To come to rest on the ground: alight 1, land, set down, settle, touch down. See move
phrasal verb

light into
Informal. To set upon with violent force: aggress, assail, assault, attack, beset, fall on or upon , go at, have at, sail into, storm, strike. Informal: pitch into. See attack
phrasal verb

light on or upon
To find or meet by chance: bump into, chance on or upon , come across, come on or upon , find, happen on or upon , run across, run into, stumble on or upon , tumble on. Archaic: alight on or upon . Idiom: meet up with. See meet

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