Usually means: Making unaware through lack of knowledge.
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  1. benighting: Merriam-Webster
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  3. benighting: Wiktionary
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  5. Benighting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Benighting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. benighting: FreeDictionary.org

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Definitions from Wiktionary (benighting)

▸ noun:  A plunging into darkness or ignorance.

Similar:
bedim, obscure, blighting, blackening, murk, mist, subingression, blinker, fuscation, abusement, more...

Opposite:
enlightening, educational, illuminating

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Similar:
bedim, obscure, blighting, blackening, murk, mist, subingression, blinker, fuscation, abusement, more...

Opposite:
enlightening, educational, illuminating



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