Benight

Quick meaning: Benight is a verb meaning To darken; to shroud or obscure.

Meaning

To darken; to shroud or obscure.

More Meanings

1. To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.
2. (chiefly passive voice) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.

Example Sentences

Can we whose souls are lighted With Wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny?

The public road, however, was tolerably well-made and safe, so that the prospect of being benighted brought with it no real danger.

The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning; / Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.

[H]e struck off the common road, to take the benefit of a nearer cut; and finding himself benighted near a village, took up his lodging at the first inn to which his horse directed him.

Word Forms

• benights
• benighting
• benighted
• benighten

Synonyms for benight

Depending on context, synonyms include obscure, bedim.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bedim, obscure, benighten, nighten, black out, darken.

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