Usually means: Plunge into darkness or ignorance.
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  1. benight: Merriam-Webster
  2. benight: Collins English Dictionary
  3. benight: Vocabulary.com
  4. benight: Wordnik
  5. benight: Wiktionary
  6. Benight, benight: Dictionary.com
  7. Benight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. benight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. benight: Rhymezone
  10. Benight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. benight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. benight: FreeDictionary.org
  13. benight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. benight: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. benight: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (benight)

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

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