Thesaurus: benight

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1. v. t. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
2. v. t. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
3. v. t. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
4. v. overtake with darkness or night
5. v. envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
6. v. make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
7. 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. Garth. 2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. Milton. 3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny Heber.
8. v overtake with darkness or night v envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness v make darker and difficult to perceive by sight