daylight
/ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/ verb C2- To expose to daylight
- To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
- To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
- To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
- To gain exposure to the open. · The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
- To moonlight (work a second, often illicit job) during the daytime.
He/she/it daylights · Past daylighted · Past participle daylighted · -ing form daylighting
Verb forms
- Base form
- daylight
- He/she/it
- daylights
- Past
- daylighted
- Past participle
- daylighted
- -ing form
- daylighting
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When daylight dawned he saw that he was near a stream; he was thirsty, and dragged himself towards it.
When it was daylight, the girl bathed her face in a little rippling brook, and soon after they all started toward the Emerald City.
They went to bed quite early and slept soundly until daylight, when they were awakened by the crowing of a green cock that lived in the back yard of the Palace, and the cackling of a hen that had laid a green egg.
It was almost dark under the trees, for the branches shut out the daylight; but the travelers did not stop, and went on into the forest.
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