benight vs overcome

benight and overcome both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
benight	No	No	Yes	No
overcome	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, overcome is a hypernym of benight; that is, overcome is a word with a broader meaning than benight:

Other hypernyms of benight include overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm.

benight (verb)	overcome (verb)
make darker and difficult to perceive by sight	get on top of; deal with successfully
envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness	overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
overtake with darkness or night	win a victory over
	overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli