Benight

1. v. t. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
2. v. t. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
3. v. t. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day’s journey or task.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.