| VERB | emotion | benight | overtake with darkness or night |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact | benight | envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | |
| change | benight, bedim | make darker and difficult to perceive by sight |
| Sounds | biynay't | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | acolyte ... write: 181 rhymes with ayt... | |
| Meaning | overtake with darkness or night. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
| Broader | overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake | Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli |
| Spanish | anochecer, ignorar, oscurecer | |
| Catalan | ignorar | |
| Meaning | envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "The benighted peoples of this area" | |
| Broader | envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose | enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering |
| Meaning | make darker and difficult to perceive by sight. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | bedim | |
| Broader | darken | make dark or darker |
| Spanish | ennegrecer, obscurecer | |
| Catalan | enfosquir, ennegrir | |
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