benight vs sweep over

benight and sweep over both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
benight	No	No	Yes	No
sweep over	No	No	Yes	No

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

Other hypernyms of benight include overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, whelm.

benight (verb)	sweep over (verb)
make darker and difficult to perceive by sight	overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
overtake with darkness or night