Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To retard; make late; benight.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To retard or make too late.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To retard; cause something to be late; delay; benight.

Etymologies

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From be- +‎ late.

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