benight

be`night´ (bė`nīt´)

v. t.	1.	To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [imp. & p. p. Benighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Benighting.] The clouds benight the sky. - Garth.
	2.	To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. - Milton.
	3.	To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? - Heber.

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Verb	1.	benight - overtake with darkness or night overwhelm, sweep over, whelm, overpower, overtake, overcome - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
	2.	benight - envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; "The benighted peoples of this area" enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap - enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house"
	3.	benight - make darker and difficult to perceive by sight bedim darken - make dark or darker; "darken a room"

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Japan, the world's second largest economy, once prided itself on being a universally middle-class society and free of the poverty that benights most other wealthy countries.

Recession pushes more Japanese onto street by AFP / AFP Asian Edition

Japan, the world's second largest economy, once prided itself on being a universally middle-class society and free of the poverty that benights most other wealthy countries.

Recession pushes more Japanese onto street by AFP / AFP Global Edition

Promotion of self-efficacy increases people's beliefs about their capabilities to manage the distressing events, principally through self-regulation of thought, emotions, and behavior (Benight & Harper, 2002; Benight et al.

Psychological first aid by Watson, Patricia J. / Journal of Mental Health Counseling

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