Meaning & use
Benight
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To overtake with darkness or nightfall; figuratively, to plunge into intellectual or moral ignorance.
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The hikers were benighted on the ridge when the fog rolled in early.
Centuries of censorship benighted the population, cutting it off from outside ideas.
A note on using this word
Mostly seen today in its past-participle form "benighted," meaning intellectually or culturally backward.
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