(v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
(v. t.) To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
(v. t.) To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
Example Sentences:
(1) Round at the benighted NHS, the Mid-Staffs hospital whistleblower, Julie Bailey, has had to move home after being insulted, threatened and attacked by local Labour activists as a liar.
(2) That's because at the root of this pro-censorship case is self-flattery: the idea that one is so intrinsically Good and Noble and Elevated that one is incapable of hatred: only those warped people over there, those benighted souls, are plagued with such poison.
(3) The leak of a letter he wrote to Boris Johnson, the then Conservative London mayor, three years ago expressing his opposition to handing over more of London’s suburban rail services to a future Labour mayor, demonstrates that political considerations – rather than a desire to improve the lot of benighted commuters – appear to dominate Grayling’s decision-making process.
(4) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
(5) However, those poor benighted souls had other ideas: between 1945 and 1965, the number of people living under British colonial rule shrank from 700 million to five million as the empire melted away.
(6) He won an Oscar nomination and a César for Cyrano de Bergerac and is best-known in Britain for his role as the benighted and hunchback tax-collector turned farmer in Jean de Florette .
(7) He has achieved more than most ministers in that benighted department.
(8) The archbishop and the imam have been touring European capitals, seeking support for their benighted country.
(9) Set in a dystopian post-America now known as Panem, where an elite preside over a starving, benighted working class, The Hunger Games centres around a brutal televised tournament where randomly selected teens, referred to as "tributes", are whisked away to battle to the death for the enjoyment of their oppressors.
(10) Ironically, it is not Damascus but Aleppo, poor, benighted Aleppo, which is actually Syria’s largest city and was once a mighty rival to Cairo and Constantinople, that has a far stronger case for being the world’s oldest city.
(11) (b) The values of delta H (approximately 9 kcal mol-1) and delta S (approximately 27 cal K-1 mol-1) of the G in equilibrium G* equilibrium are close to those associated with single base pair opening [Wartell, R.M., & Benight, A.S. (1982) Biopolymers 21, 2069].
(12) And in onshore detention, healthcare failures , hunger-strikes and deaths continue to plague a broken, benighted system.
(13) 1-13), of small hairpins (Paner et al., 1990; M. J. Doktycz, T. M. Paner, M. Amaratunga and A. S. Benight, 1990, Biopolymers, Vol.
(14) 829-845) and another dumbbell (A. S. Benight, J. M. Schurr, P. F. Flynn, B. R. Reid, and D. E. Wemmer, 1988) Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol.
(15) Soon, though, they might all be transported back to the benighted country of Weah's birth and the most uncertain of futures.
(16) Self-reflection is obviously required on occasion, but only as a function of self-interest: to enable the elimination of mistakes that are preventing the benighted from realising your primacy.
(17) They send the message that Australia’s benighted isolation on a lonely island lost in the middle of a foggy sea must be terminated.
(18) This state of affairs is undemocratic, unnecessary and – in the long run – intolerable.” Since Ripa is the benighted statute that has provided the justification for the claims that everything British spies do is “lawful”, to hear this kind of talk from an independent insider seems almost magical.
(19) A decade after Powell’s infamous speech, Margaret Thatcher also reached out to the corners of benighted Britain with a reference to fears that the country would be “swamped by people with a different culture” .
(20) But that is not the good fortune of the luckless children of that benighted city.
Darken
Definition:
(a.) To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
(a.) To render dim; to deprive of vision.
(a.) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
(a.) To cast a gloom upon.
(a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
(v. i.) To grow or darker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immediate pigment darkening (IPD) occurs in human skin upon exposure to ultraviolet-A and visible radiation.
(2) There would never be a meeting in a darkened room where a winner was chosen just to fit an audience demographic or to create more entertaining telly.
(3) Each subject sat for 6 minutes in a darkened room and was told to memorize a list of words she heard form a tape.
(4) Normal, refractile spores were produced in each case; a portion of the barium spores lost refractility and darkened.
(5) Instead of coming to the bank, where we would be photographed coming in the front door, we were all to meet outside the McDonald's in Liverpool Street where we would be picked up in a people-carrier with darkened windows and driven in through the back of the bank.
(6) The final stage of germination was characterized by changes in the central spore region (core), notably phase darkening of the spore center and stainability with mercurochrome, and by a slight additional absorbancy decrease.
(7) Confluent patches of flat pigmentation appeared over the palpebral conjunctiva 18 weeks after the onset of treatment and showed progressive lateral enlargement and darkening.
(8) The 16 sites were qualitatively examined for evidence of resorption by either thinning or darkening of bone relative to the time immediately following surgery.
(9) Today's matches take place in a darkened hall within the stadium's towering walls, on the battlefields of multimillion-selling first-person shoot-'em-up Call of Duty .
(10) alpha-Melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) is a linear tridecapeptide (Ac-Ser-Tyr-Ser-Met-Glu-His-Phe-Arg-Trp-Gly-Lys-Pro-Val-NH2) that has diverse physiological functions in addition to its reversible darkening of amphibian skins by stimulating melanosome dispersion within melanophores.
(11) 1) Asphyxia induced marked body colour darkening and bradycardia.
(12) The most striking feature of such neurons was darkening of their dendrites associated with abnormally high density cytoplasm that contained mitochondria with disrupted cristae.
(13) Braving darkening skies, they were initially in an upbeat mood, belting out the samba rhythm of carnival classic I'm Going to Celebrate.
(14) With official unemployment data today expected to show a further rise in the long-term unemployed, the TUC argues young people were some of the worst affected by Britain's deep recession and their outlook could darken further as public sector job losses intensify.
(15) beta-Adrenoceptor blocking agents, in contrast, inhibit catecholamine-induced darkening but have no effect on MSH-induced darkening.
(16) During the hibernation period, the epiphyseal catecholamine charge is well detected in the garden dormouse; it appears more important in darkened animals at 22 degrees C and much less in animals under continuous lighting.
(17) Melanocyte stimulating hormone-induced darkening or dispersion of the granules was reversed by each of these metabolites.
(18) Reactivation of the enzyme extracted from darkened leaves was achieved simply by adding a thiol compound.
(19) By analyzing the synaptic relationships of such "darkened" dendrites, connections in the upper dorsal horn can be deciphered.
(20) The specific activity of the light enzyme was consistently about twice that of the dark form when assayed at suboptimal (but physiological) pH (pH 7.0-7.3), and the former was also less sensitive to feedback inhibition by L-malate than that from darkened leaves under various conditions.