Crossword-Solution: BENIGHT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Benight | v. t. | To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. |
| Benight | v. t. | To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. |
| Benight | v. t. | To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “BENIGHT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | 1 answer |
| make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | 1 answer |
| overtake with darkness or night | 1 answer |
| shroud in darkness | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BENIGHT (5)
This was Paris' case, And he was blind in 't, and there was a great cause; For how was 't possible he could judge right, Having three amorous goddesses in view, And they stark naked? 'Twas a motion Were able to benight the apprehension Of the severest counsellor of Europe.
The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning; Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
All hail! master, full of might, I have you served both day and night: Now I comen, as I you benight.[206] One and twenty winter is comen and gone.
Hallo, my fancy, whither wilt thou go? 2 Amidst the misty vapours, Fain would I know What doth cause the tapers; Why the clouds benight us And affright us, While we travel here below.
But swept their dwellings with unquiet light, Shocking the awful presence of the dead; Where gracious natures would their eyes benight, Nor wear their being with a lip too red, Nor move too rudely in the summer bright Of sun, but put staid sorrow in their tread, Meting it into steps, with inward breath, In very pity to bereaved death.
Quotes with BENIGHT (1)
Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.