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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Cloud \Cloud\ (kloud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clouded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Clouding.]
1. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky
is clouded.
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2. To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a
cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
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One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. --Shak.
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Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
--Milton.
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Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty
like prejudice. --M. Arnold.
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3. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; --
esp. used of reputation or character.
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I would not be a stander-by to hear
My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
My present vengeance taken. --Shak.
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4. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate
with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
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And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. --Pope.
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WordNet Clouded
adj 1: made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance;
"his face was clouded with unhappiness"
2: filled or abounding with clouds [syn: cloud-covered, overcast,
sunless]
3: mentally disordered; "a mind clouded by sorrow"
4: unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the
group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes
the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells [syn: blurred]

Moby Dictionary
Acheronian , Acherontic , Cimmerian , Stygian , abstruse , ambiguous ,
armored , beclouded , blind , buried , calico , cased , castellatus ,
ceiled , cirrose , cirrous , cloaked , close , cloud-flecked , cloudy ,
coated , concealed , coped , covered , covert , cowled , cumuliform ,
cumulous , curtained , dapple , dappled , dark , dark and gloomy , dirty ,
dubious , eclipsed , encapsulated , encapsuled , encased , enveloped ,
enwrapped , equivocal , filmed , floored , funereal , gloomful ,
glooming , gloomy , heavy , hid , hidden , hooded , housed , ill-lighted ,
ill-lit , in a cloud , in a fog , in eclipse , in purdah , in the wings ,
incommunicado , latent , lenticularis , loricate , loricated , lowering ,
mammatus , mantled , marbled , masked , motley , mottled , muffled ,
mysterious , nebulous , nimbose , nubilous , obfuscated , obscure ,
obscured , occult , occulted , open , overcast , overclouded , packaged ,
paved , pepper-and-salt , piebald , pied , pinto , problematic ,
recondite , roofed-in , screened , scummed , secluded , secluse , secret ,
sequestered , shady , sheathed , shelled , shielded , shrouded ,
skewbald , somber , sombrous , squally , stormy , stratiform , stratous ,
swathed , tented , thunderheaded , uncertain , unclear ,
under an eclipse , under cover , under house arrest , under wraps ,
underground , unknown , unsettled , veiled , walled , walled-in ,
wrapped , wrapped in clouds