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Verb: benight
  1. Overtake with darkness or night
     
  2. Envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
    "The benighted peoples of this area"
     
  3. Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
    - bedim [archaic]

Derived forms: benighted, benights, benighting

Type of: darken, enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, wrap

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