see the light as a verb: - 1
see the light
verb
1 see the light
Change for the better.
synonyms: reform, straighten out.
Roget 359:
be alive
etc.
adj.;
live,
breathe,
respire;
subsist
etc.
(exist)
1;
walk the earth,
strut and fret one's hour upon the stage"
[Macbeth];
be spared.
see the light,
be born,
come into the world,
fetch breath,
draw breath,
fetch the breath of life,
draw the breath of life;
quicken;
revive;
come to life.
give birth to
etc.
(produce)
161;
bring to life,
put into life,
vitalize;
vivify,
vivificate†;
reanimate
etc.
(restore)
660;
keep alive,
keep body and soul together,
keep the wolf from the door;
support life.
hive nine lives like a cat.
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Roget 531:
publish;
make public,
make known
etc.
(information)
527;
speak of,
talk of;
broach,
utter;
put forward;
circulate,
propagate,
promulgate;
spread,
spread abroad;
rumor,
diffuse,
disseminate,
evulugate;
put forth,
give forth,
send forth;
emit,
edit,
get out;
issue;
bring before the public,
lay before the public,
drag before the public;
give out,
give to the world;
put about,
bandy about,
hawk about,
buzz about,
whisper about,
bruit about,
blaze about;
drag into the open day;
voice.
proclaim,
herald,
blazon;
blaze abroad,
noise abroad;
sound a trumpet;
trumpet forth,
thunder forth;
give tongue;
announce with beat of drum,
announce with flourish of trumpets;
proclaim from the housetops,
proclaim at Charing Cross.
advertise,
placard;
post,
post up afficher†,
publish in the Gazette,
send round the crier.
raise a cry,
raise a hue and cry,
raise a report;
set news afloat.
be published
&c.;
be public,
become public
etc.
adj.;
come out;
go about,
fly about,
buzz about,
blow about;
get about,
get abroad,
get afloat,
get wind;
find vent;
see the light;
go forth,
take air,
acquire currency,
pass current;
go the rounds,
go the round of the newspapers,
go through the length and breadth of the land;
virum volitare per ora [Lat.];
pass from mouth to mouth;
spread;
run like wildfire,
spread like wildfire.
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Dutch: het licht zien
Moby thesaurus: appear, arise, awake, awaken, be begotten, be born, be incarnated, become manifest, become public, become visible, break, buzz about, circulate, come, come alive, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come into being, come into existence, come out, come to, come to hand, come to life, come to light, crop out, descry, discern, emerge, enter, fade in, find vent, fly about, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get around, get exposure, go about, go forth, go the rounds, have currency, heave in sight, issue, issue forth, live again, look forth, loom, make out, materialize, outcrop, peep out, penetrate, perceive, pierce, plumb, quicken, reanimate, rear its head, resurge, resuscitate, return to life, revive, rise, rise again, see, see daylight, see into, see through, show, show up, spread, spread about, spread like wildfire, stream forth, strike the eye, turn up ... show more.
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