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

w>light (up)on

vi +prep obj (inf) → entdecken, stoßen auf (+acc)
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