What is the meaning of clouded?

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"
  • Make gloomy or depressed.
    • usage: "Their faces were clouded with sadness"
  • Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.
    • usage: "sully someone's reputation"
  • Make less clear.
    • usage: "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"
  • Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.
  • Make milky or dull.
    • usage: "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"

adjective

  • Made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance.
    • usage: "his face was clouded with unhappiness"
  • Filled or abounding with clouds.
  • 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
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