benight

IPA: binˈaɪt

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

Examples of "benight" in Sentences

Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air
Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
And the boldest of all the fishers would hear his hammer benight.
And with thy sooty fingers has benight The world's fair cheeks, blow, blow thy spite;
How does it please the Almighty for you to deliberately benight yourself in this manner?
Light of the Understanding, almost benight the Faculties, and give that melancholy Tincture to the most sanguine Complexion, which this
You might be familiar with the well-publicized challenges to classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, or the more recent attempts to muzzle Harry Potter and (further) benight Philip Pullman's series His Dark Materials.
You might be familiar with the well-publicized challenges to classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, or the more recent attempts to muzzle Harry Potter and (further) benight Philip Pullman\'s series His Dark Materials.