Usually means: Descend from vehicle, train, mount.
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  1. alight: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. alight, alight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alight, alight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alight: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alight, alight: Wordnik
  7. alight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alight: Wiktionary
  9. alight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alight: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Alight, alight: Dictionary.com
  13. alight (adj.), alight (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. alight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Alight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Alight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. alight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. alight: Rhymezone
  19. alight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. alight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. alight: Free Dictionary
  22. alight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. alight: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. alight: Legal dictionary

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  2. alight: Medical dictionary

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  1. alight: Idioms

(Note: See alighted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (alight)

verb:  (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.
verb:  (also figuratively) Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.
verb:  (archaic)
verb:  To come down or go down; to descend.
verb:  Often followed by on or upon: of a blow, something thrown, etc.: to land heavily.
verb:  (figuratively) Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon.
verb:  (obsolete) To arrive.
verb:  To cast light on (something); to illuminate, to light up.
verb:  To set light to (something); to set (something) on fire; to ignite, to light.
adjective:  Burning, lit, on fire.
adjective:  Often followed by with: shining with light; luminous, radiant; also, brightly coloured; vivid.
adjective:  Of an electrical light source: switched on and emitting light.
adjective:  (figuratively) Aglow with activity or emotion.
adverb:  (also figuratively) Chiefly in set alight: in flames, on fire; aflame.

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