benight
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
overtake with darkness or night
Types & categories
- overwhelm hypernym
Sense 2 verb
envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
The benighted peoples of this area
Types & categories
- enclose hypernym
Sense 3 verb
make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
Types & categories
- darken hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | overwhelm |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | enclose |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | darken |