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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cloud \Cloud\ (kloud), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Clouded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clouding}.]
1. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
2. To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. --Shak.
Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks. --Milton.
Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice. --M. Arnold.
3. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken. --Shak.
4. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
clouded
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "clouded": 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
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