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Benight

🔄 Synonyms of "Benight"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
obscureverb	Difficult to understand; abstruse.
bedimverb	(transitive) To make dim; to obscure or darken.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
bedimverb	(transitive) To make dim; to obscure or darken.
obscureverb	Difficult to understand; abstruse.
benightenverb	(obsolete, transitive) To benight.
nightenverb	(intransitive) To become night or grow dark, as night.
black outverb	(intransitive) To lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout.
darkenverb	(transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
draw inverb	(idiomatic, transitive) To attract.
beshadowverb	(transitive) To cast a shadow around, about, or over; overshadow.
obnubilateverb	To make cloudy.
overshadowverb	(transitive) To dominate something and make it seem insignificant.
becloudverb	(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
overshadeverb	To cast a shadow over, to overshadow.
bed downverb	(intransitive) To lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery, or of people when sleeping somewhere worse than normal, often camping or in prison.
blindernoun	Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
shadenoun	(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
shadownoun	A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
put in the shadeverb	(informal, transitive, figuratively) To outshine, to eclipse, to overshadow, to be better than.
beshadeverb	(transitive) To shadow; cast a shadow over.
tenebrizeverb	(rare) To make dark and shadowy.
undarkenverb	(ambitransitive) To take away the darkness (from something).