Definition of "alighting" []

• Present participle of alight. (verb)

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• "It was suggested that she might have dropped it in alighting from the carriage."
• "Picture a flock of birds alighting from the writer’s brain and converging inside the reader, this strange shuddering weight settling on the branches of the reader’s mind."
• "They had been alighting from the stagecoach when Farien and his daughter passed."