alight from (something)

alight from (something)

To get down from, or off of, something (usually a vehicle). The children alighted from the school bus on the first day of school. We've landed, but we still need to alight from the plane. It takes me forever to alight from the train these days, thanks to this stupid cast on my foot.

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alight from something

to get off something; to get down off something. Almost three hundred people alighted from the plane.

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