cloud
/ˈklaʊ̯d/ verb C2- To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight. · The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
- To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds. · The sky is clouded.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- To make obscure. · All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
- To make less acute or perceptive. · Your emotions are clouding your judgement.· The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.
- To make gloomy or sullen.
- To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors. · to cloud yarn
He/she/it clouds · Past clouded · Past participle clouded · -ing form clouding
Verb forms
- Base form
- cloud
- He/she/it
- clouds
- Past
- clouded
- Past participle
- clouded
- -ing form
- clouding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A cloud passed over Danglars’ brow.
A cloud passed over his brow as he said:
The next morning the sun was behind a cloud, but they started on, as if they were quite sure which way they were going.
“Come, we are getting on, Watson.” His brow clouded, however, as he glanced over the contents.
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