unlight

verb

1. To extinguish, turn off, or dim the light from

   rare, transitive

   His father, in another room, unlights the lamp and leaves the world alone.

Where it comes from

From un- + light or, in the case of the verb, perhaps from Middle English *unlighten (suggested by past participle unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“unlit”)), equivalent to un- + light.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry unlight (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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