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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cloud \Cloud\, 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. 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 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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