How far might I have been on my way by this time! I am made to tread thoſe ſteps thrice over, which I needed not to have trod but once: Yea now alſo I am like to be benighted, for the day is almost ſpent.
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Benight
//bɪˈnaɪt//
Synonyms for "benight" (14 found)
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8 translations across 4 languages.
German
1 entries- umnachten verb (to darken — see also darken)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- smračiti verb (to darken — see also darken)
- zamračiti verb (to darken — see also darken)
- zatamniti verb (to darken — see also darken)
Spanish
1 entries- oscurecer verb (to darken — see also darken)
Ukrainian
3 entries- засти́гнути те́мрявою verb (to overtake with night; to be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination)
- затьма́рити verb (to darken — see also darken)
- укри́ти те́мрявою verb (to overtake with night; to be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination)
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[H]e struck off the common road, to take the benefit of a nearer cut; and finding himself benighted near a village, took up his lodging at the first inn to which his horse directed him.
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The public road, however, was tolerably well-made and safe, so that the prospect of being benighted brought with it no real danger.
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The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning; / Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
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