benight

An archaic verb meaning to overtake with night, to darken, or to involve in moral or intellectual darkness.

• 🇪🇸Verbo obsoleto que significa sorprender o atrapar de noche, oscurecer, o sumir en tinieblas morales o intelectuales.

1. Overtake with darkness or night C2 formal british

   To be caught or overtaken by the darkness of night.

   • The travelers were benighted on the mountain pass.
   • We were benighted before reaching the village.
   • The hikers feared being benighted in the forest.

   🇪🇸Ser alcanzado por la noche / oscurecer

   Sinónimos: bedimdarkenenvelopobscureshroud

2. Envelop in intellectual or moral darkness C2 formal british

   To plunge into a state of ignorance, confusion, or moral obscurity.

   • The regime sought to benight the populace through censorship.
   • Superstition can benight even the most rational minds.
   • They were benighted by prejudice and misinformation.

   🇪🇸sumir en la ignorancia u oscuridad moral

   Sinónimos: becloudbedimbefogclouddarkeneclipseobscure

   Antónimos: edifyeducateenlightenilluminateinstruct

3. Make dark and difficult to perceive C2 formal british

   To obscure or make something difficult to see or understand.

   • The fog benighted the landscape, hiding the path ahead.
   • His vision was benighted by the sudden glare.
   • The complex jargon benighted the true meaning of the text.

   🇪🇸Oscurecer

   Sinónimos: becloudbedimclouddarkendimeclipseobscureovershadowshade

   Antónimos: brightenclarifyenlightenilluminatelighten

• benighted past participle
• benighted past simple
• benighting present participle
• benights third person singular