LIT UP Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

lit up

adjective

Definition of lit up next

as in drunk

being under the influence of alcohol he finally wandered in at 3:00 a.m., obviously lit up

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Recent Examples of lit up Then again, the world that the all-new Revuelto lands in is almost unrecognizable from the one the rakish Lamborghini 350 GT lit up back when the ’60s were starting to pendulate. —

WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023 Just a few years earlier, the four-meter-wide asteroid 2008 TC3 was the first one ever detected before hitting Earth; only six others have been discovered before impact since, including 2023 CX1 that just lit up the English Channel on February 13, 2023, as if marking the week’s anniversary. —

Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2023 The scoreboard lit up with Alexandria Verner’s name and 2020, her graduation year. —

Mike Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2023 On Monday, many social media sites in the U.S. lit up with theories that Biden had deployed the aerial devices as a way to distract Americans from other, more pressing issues. —

David Klepper, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for lit up

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Setting things in motion was the dropping off of a drunk seaman at NIS, by a Shore Patrol officer who was in a rush to a hot date and didn’t have time for a proper handoff to the MPs.

Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 9 Dec. 2024
Officers found Stewart drunk behind the wheel of a 2021 Honda Civic.

Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024