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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb benight has 3 senses
- benight(v = verb.emotion) Array - overtake with darkness or night; Array is one way to overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm
- benight(v = verb.contact) Array - envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; "The benighted peoples of this area" is one way to enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap
- benight(v = verb.change) bedim - make darker and difficult to perceive by sight; Array is one way to darken
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CIDE DICTIONARY
benight, v. 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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