lightning

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Synonyms: lightening, lighting, slighting, blighting, alighting, sighting, fighting, nightwing, sightening, tightening, righting

Antonyms: lightening, lighting, slighting, blighting, alighting, sighting, fighting, nightwing, sightening, tightening, righting

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|Q33741}} A [[flash]] of [[light]] produced by short-duration, high-voltage [[discharge]] of [[electricity]] within a [[cloud]], between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.<!--which heats the air and typically causes thunder-->
2. A discharge of this kind.
3. {{lb|en|figuratively}} Anything that moves very fast.
4. {{lb|en|archaic|slang}} {{U|gin}}.
5. {{obsolete form of|en|lightening}}.<ref>{{R:Webster 1913}}</ref>

Adjective

1. Extremely [[fast]] or [[sudden]]; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|impersonal|childish|or|nonstandard|intransitive}} To produce lightning.

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