sweep over vs benight

sweep over and benight both are verbs.

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

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

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

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