benight

benight has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• v. t.. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
• v. t.. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
• v. t.. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
• v.. make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
• v.. envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; "The benighted peoples of this area"
• v.. overtake with darkness or night