Dictionary Entry
benight
benight is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
- 2transitive verb
To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
- 3transitive verb
To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
- 4verb
make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
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- 5verb
envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
"The benighted peoples of this area"
- 6verb
overtake with darkness or night
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