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

1. transitive verb. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
2. transitive verb. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
3. transitive verb. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
4. verb. make darker and difficult to perceive by sight

   Synonyms: bedim

5. verb. envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness

   "The benighted peoples of this area"

6. verb. overtake with darkness or night

Synonyms

bedim

Common word forms

benighted, benighten, benighter, benighting, benightment

Words from these letters

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