light upon vs regain

light upon and regain both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
light upon	No	No	Yes	No
regain	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, regain is a hypernym of light upon; that is, regain is a word with a broader meaning than light upon:

light upon: find unexpectedly
regain: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

Other hypernyms of light upon include find.

light upon (verb)	regain (verb)
find unexpectedly	get or find back; recover the use of
	come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost