Benight

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To overtake with night.
  • To involve in darkness, as with the shades of night; shroud in gloom; overshadow; eclipse; figuratively, to involve in moral darkness or ignorance.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
  • transitive verb. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
  • transitive verb. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
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  • verb. To overtake with night.
  • verb. To be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination
  • verb. To darken
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  • verb. overtake with darkness or night
  • verb. envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
  • verb. make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
    • Word Usage
    "Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    darken  enclose  enfold  envelop  enwrap  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bright  Dwight  Knight  Night  White  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    obscure  
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