benight

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb benight has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

benightv. t. 
  •  To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.  [1913 Webster]
    "The clouds benight the sky."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.  [1913 Webster]
    "Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.  [1913 Webster]
    "Shall we to men benighted
    The lamp of life deny ?
    "  [1913 Webster]

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