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light upon

/laɪt əˈpɒn/

Traducción: Verbo frasal desusado que significa encontrar o descubrir algo por casualidad; toparse con algo.

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verb

/laɪt əˈpɒn/C2formalobsoleto
  • esVerbo frasal desusado que significa encontrar o descubrir algo por casualidad; toparse con algo.

An archaic phrasal verb meaning to come upon or discover something by chance; to alight on.

incontable · intransitivo · phrasal, inseparable

  1. Discover or find by chanceformalbritish

    To come across something unexpectedly or by accident.

    esencontrar por casualidad

    • While cleaning the attic, she lit upon an old photograph album.
    • He lit upon the solution while reading a different book.
    • The researcher lit upon a crucial piece of evidence in the archives.

    Sinónimoschance uponcome acrossdiscoverencounterfindhappen upon

Formas
  • lighted upon past participle
  • lit upon past participle
  • lighted upon past simple
  • lit upon past simple
  • lighting upon present participle
  • lights upon third person singular

Verbo baselight

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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