MEANING
1. To cover with darkness or leave someone overtaken by night.
2. To leave someone intellectually uninformed or in ignorance.
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Words that belong together
- benighted travelers
- benighted on a pass
On the page
The travelers were benighted on the high pass.
Fog and early darkness benighted the party before it reached shelter.
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Word forms
- Base
- benight
- Past tense
- benighted
- Past participle
- benighted
- Present participle
- benighting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- benight
- Present continuous
- am/is/are benighting
- Present perfect
- have/has benighted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been benighting
- Past
- benighted
- Past continuous
- was/were benighting
- Past perfect
- had benighted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been benighting
- Future
- will benight
- Future continuous
- will be benighting
- Future perfect
- will have benighted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been benighting
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: benight; benights; benighted; benighted; benighting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: benights.
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