| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb benight.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (benight) | 1. Overtake with darkness or night.[Wordnet]. 2. Envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; "The benighted peoples of this area".[Wordnet]. 3. Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight.[Wordnet]. 4. Make difficult to perceive by sight; "The foliage of the huge tree obscures the view of the lake".[Wordnet]. 5. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.[Websters]. 6. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.[Websters]. 7. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.[Websters]. 8. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: benighting, benighted, benights, benighter, benighters, benightingly and benightedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BENIGHTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: benight
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night. The clouds benight the sky.. | 2: [Verb] To overtake with night; as a benighted traveler.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (of a traveller etc) To be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination. (references) | 2: [Verb] To darken. (references) | |
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