benights

/B IY0 N AY1 T S/

verb

1
To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.
2
To darken; to shroud or obscure.
3
(chiefly passive voice) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.

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