benight

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Meaning

1. verb To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
2. verb To darken; to shroud or obscure.
3. verb To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.

Similar words

bedim obscure benighten nighten black out darken draw in beshadow obnubilate overshadow

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