uplight

verb

1. To light up, illuminate.

   transitive

   Uplit the scene, and poured the fire, amid the branches riven.

   Save in the withered woods alone, where flashing bolts from Heaven

2. To illuminate from below.

   transitive

Where it comes from

From up- + light. Compare Saterland Frisian apljuchte (“to illuminate”), West Frisian opljochtsje (“to illuminate”), Dutch oplichten (“to illuminate”), German Low German upluchten, uplüchten (“to illuminate”), German aufleuchten (“to illuminate”).

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

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