verb
- Make overcast or cloudy.
- usage: "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
- Make less visible or unclear.
- usage: "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"
- Billow up in the form of a cloud.
- usage: "The smoke clouded above the houses"
- synonyms: cloud
- Make gloomy or depressed.
- usage: "Their faces were clouded with sadness"
- synonyms: cloud
- Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.
- usage: "sully someone's reputation"
- Make less clear.
- usage: "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"
- synonyms: cloud
- Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.
- Make milky or dull.
- usage: "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"
- synonyms: cloud
adjective
- Made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance.
- usage: "his face was clouded with unhappiness"
- Filled or abounding with clouds.
- synonyms: cloud-covered, overcast, sunless
- Mentally disordered.
- usage: "a mind clouded by sorrow"
- Unclear in form or expression."the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded- H. G. Wells
- synonyms: blurred
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