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benight

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7 lettersPronunciation /bɪˈnaɪt/Part of speech verbSorted beghintStarts with BEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. make darker and difficult to perceive by sight

Word origin

From Middle English benyghten, binighten, bynyȝten, equivalent to be- + night.

Used in a sentence

  • How far might I have been on my way by this time! I am made to tread thoſe ſteps thrice over, which I needed not to have trod but once: Yea now alſo I am like to be benighted, for the day is almost ſpent.
  • [H]e struck off the common road, to take the benefit of a nearer cut; and finding himself benighted near a village, took up his lodging at the first inn to which his horse directed him.
  • The public road, however, was tolerably well-made and safe, so that the prospect of being benighted brought with it no real danger.

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