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v.
To overtake with night.
v.
To be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination
v.
To darken
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v.
To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
v.
To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
v.
To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To overtake with night.
To involve in darkness, as with the shades of night; shroud in gloom; overshadow; eclipse; figuratively, to involve in moral darkness or ignorance.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
v.
overtake with darkness or night
v.
envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
v.
make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
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"Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air"
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whelm
overpower
overcome
sweep over
overtake
overwhelm
enclose
wrap
enfold
enwrap
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benighted
benighting
benightment
benighter
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obscure
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Bright
Dwight
Knight
Night
White
Wight
Wright
alight
allright
alright