Thesaurus: benight
To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
Related headwords
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Definitions
- v. t. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
- v. t. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
- v. t. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
- v. overtake with darkness or night
- v. envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
- v. make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
- v overtake with darkness or night v envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness v make darker and difficult to perceive by sight