overwhelm vs benight

overwhelm and benight both are verbs.

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

As verbs, benight is a hyponym of overwhelm; that is, benight is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than overwhelm:

Other hyponyms of overwhelm include devastate, clutch, get hold of, seize, kill, knock out, stagger, lock.

overwhelm (verb)	benight (verb)
charge someone with too many tasks	make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
overcome by superior force	envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
cover completely or make imperceptible	overtake with darkness or night
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli