Dictionary Definition

benight

1 overtake with darkness or night

2 envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; "The benighted peoples of this area"

3 make difficult to perceive by sight; "The foliage of the huge tree obscures the view of the lake" [syn: obscure, bedim]

User Contributed Dictionary

In the context of "of a traveller etc": To be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination
To darken