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benighted
 
Adjective benighted has 2 senses
  1. benighted, nighted - overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"
    Antonym: punctual (indirect, via unpunctual)
  2. benighted, dark - lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"
    Antonym: enlightened (indirect, via unenlightened)
Verb benight has 3 senses
  1. benight - overtake with darkness or night
    --1 is one way to     overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
  2. benight - envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; "The benighted peoples of this area"
    --2 is one way to     envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
  3. obscure, benight, bedim - make difficult to perceive by sight; "The foliage of the huge tree obscures the view of the lake"
    --3 is one way to darken
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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