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Befight vs Benight - What's the difference?

befight | benight |

As verbs the difference between befight and benight

is that befight is to deprive of by fighting while benight is to overtake with night.

befight

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To deprive of by fighting.
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To fight against; contend; do battle with.

    • benight

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To overtake with night.
  • (label) (of a traveller etc) To be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination
  • (label) To darken
  • * 1922 XXV, lines 13-14
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * benighted * benighter * benightment

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989