Benight: alternatives and connections

To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

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To inclose. See Inclose.

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To infold. See Infold.

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To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a…

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To envelop. See Inwrap.

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of Overcome

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To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.

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To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

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To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; t…

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To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.

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To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

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To make dim; to obscure or darken.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.