Wiktionary
lights up
vb. (en-third-person singular of: light up)
Usage examples of "lights up".
She carries herself with all the joyous springiness of youth, and her whole face lights up so wonderfully when she talks that you quite forget whether her features are regular or not.
But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's--not the Shadow's.
Within secomids the screen lights up with words, and I read who I am.
After casting an eye around to make sure there are no leaking stacks of drums of aviation fuel nearby, he lights up a cigarette.