English Dictionary

benight

動詞

古語 受動態 他動詞

(chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached. / To darken; to shroud or obscure.

日本語の意味

（旅人などが）夜の闇に覆われる、道に迷う状態になる / 暗くする、薄暗くする / 覆い隠す、視界を遮る

They feared the gathering clouds would benight them before they reached shelter.

彼らは避難所に着く前に夜の暗闇に追いつかれることを恐れた。

意味（1）

(chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.

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.

意味（2）

To darken; to shroud or obscure.

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.

意味（3）

To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.

Can we whose souls are lighted With Wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny?

benights （ present singular third-person ）

benighting （ participle present ）

benighted （ participle past ）

benighted （ past ）