benight > define

verb

• Overtake with darkness or night.
• Envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness.
  • usage: "The benighted peoples of this area"
• Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight.
  • synonyms: bedim

• (v.t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
• (v.t.) To involve in moral darkness or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
• (v.t.) To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.