alighten

To alight, to dismount or get down from.

When I alighten at my destination, I saw them going in the rickshaw.

Her house was barely half a kilometre away from the nearest bus stage; she alightened with ease and wiped the thin layer of sweat that had accumulated on her forehead.

To alight; to land, to descend and rest.

The bees always alighten at the bottom of the spike, and, crawling spirally up it, sucked one flower after the other.

Both of the two jays that had just moved flew out of the tree and alightened in the boughs of a nearby cedar.

To lighten; to reduce in weight or heaviness.

I shivered and shook, and would have screqamed in my fright—but the Fiend,—as he seemed to be, —in a hoarse, croaking voice, charged me to keep silence,—saying that I had lain seven years bound for my sin, and that my soul would speedily be sent on an errand to sinners yet on the earth, to warn them from the evil of their ways, —and that, then, my punishment in Purgatory would be alightened.

On the fifth day Mr. Hedly (who first motioned lot-drawing) and another died, whereby their boat was somewhat alightened.

To make light; to illuminate or brighten.

Of those who should be alightened by his faith and sanctified by his grace Christ designed to form a holy society, over which he will reign for ever.

Sometimes, indeed, when for an hour or two my spirits are alightened, I glimmer a little into futurity; but my principal, and indeed my only pleasurable employment, is looking backwards and forwards in a moral and religious way.