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Synonyms
- besotted
- blasted [slang]
- blind
- blitzed [slang]
- blotto [slang]
- bombed
- boozy
- canned [slang]
- cockeyed
- crocked
- drunk
- drunken
- fried
- gassed
- hammered [slang]
- high
- impaired
- inebriate
- inebriated
- intoxicated
- juiced [slang]
- lit
- loaded [slang]
- looped
- oiled [slang]
- pickled
- pie-eyed
- plastered
- potted [slang]
- ripped [slang]
- sloshed [slang]
- smashed [slang]
- sottish
- soused
- sozzled
- squiffed
- squiffy
- stewed
- stiff
- stinking [slang]
- stoned
- tanked [slang]
- tiddly [chiefly British]
- tight
- tipsy
- wasted [slang]
- wet
- wiped out [slang]
Examples of lit up in a Sentence
he finally wandered in at 3:00 a.m., obviously lit up
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Those efforts lit up an otherwise drab white-cinderblock room in the jail on a mid-March Tuesday morning as students from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics’ Bridge program worked to inform inmates on how to vote and what would be on the ballot.
—Jake Sheridan, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
Large text threads lit up in the US, including among chief financial officers of big startups, according to two people familiar with the communications.
—Saritha Rai, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
In September 1859, during the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded, auroras lit up the Caribbean.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
When Maritza Cruz’s phone lit up with a text message from her teenage son Tuesday morning, a fresh but familiar wave of panic surged through her.
—Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1907, in the meaning defined above
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“Lit up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lit%20up. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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