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Clouding

noun

The process whereby water particles become visible in the sky. Synonym: clouding up.

Cloud

verb

(past & past part. clouded; pres. part. clouding)

Make overcast or cloudy. Synonym: overcast.

Make less visible or unclear. Synonyms: becloud, befog, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure. "The big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"

Billow up in the form of a cloud.

Make gloomy or depressed.

Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon. Synonyms: corrupt, defile, sully, taint.

Make less clear.

Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades. Synonyms: dapple, mottle.

Make milky or dull.

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"Clouding" Quotes from Famous Books

... my lips some angry accents fell, Peevish complaint, or harsh reproof unkind, 'Twas but the error of a sickly mind And troubled thoughts, clouding the purer well, And waters clear, of Reason; and for me Let this my verse the poor atonement be— My verse, which thou to praise wert ever inclined Too highly, and with a partial eye to see No blemish. Thou to me didst ever show Kindest affection; ...

— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb

... was halted finally, though this was mere respite before a fiercer breaking of the storm. The two ships were drifting yet closer to the strand. Only the fear of striking their own men kept the Persians around the king from clouding the air with arrows. Glaucon saw the grandees near Xerxes's throne brandishing their swords. In imagination he saw the monarch leaping from his throne in agony as ...

— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis

... essence as the other! What is it comes to me at this distance of that which I saw in Pompeii? The narrow and curving, but not crooked streets, with the blazing sun of that Neapolitan November falling into them, or clouding their wheel-worn lava with the black, black shadows of the many-tinted walls; the houses, and the gay columns of white, yellow, and red; the delicate pavements of mosaic; the skeletons of dusty cisterns and dead fountains; inanimate garden spaces with pygmy statues suited to ...

— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells

... of making rich men richer and poor men poorer; of making distressed families more distressed; of making a portion of the human family utterly and hopelessly miserable, debasing the moral nature, and thus clouding with despair their ...

— Stories Worth Rereading • Various

... shall find their usual shyness to expose themselves or even to make a bold vigorous attack. But if armies or troops could be frightened by appearances these horses of the Marathas would dishearten the bravest, actually darkening the plains with their numbers and clouding the horizon with dust for miles and miles around. A little fighting, however, goes a great way with them, as with most others of the ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

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