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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
benight .
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Examples
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Not full, but close; & of course that bloody "seller's subsidy" that benights the Virginia real estate market.
Archive 2009-07-12 Bas Bleu 2009
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Not full, but close; & of course that bloody "seller's subsidy" that benights the Virginia real estate market.
Liberté! Bas Bleu 2009
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It's mesilf that kapes wakin 'benights to listen fer the screams av her.
The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Ralph Connor 1898
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Ursula's lodging benights, and the rest of them slept on the field as they might; or should they come to a thicket or shaw, they would lodge them there softly.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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Thus would we do in the old time when we drew anear some shore, and the beacons were sending up smoke by day, and flame benights; and the shore-abiders did on their helms and trembled.
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men William Morris 1865
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Darkness that benights our minds, and bring in a Clear Light, that would remove all Difficulties.
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But he is above legitimising the toxic comedy of humiliation that benights British culture.
The Guardian World News Stuart Jeffries 2010
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