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Clouded

adjective

Made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance.

Filled or abounding with clouds. Synonyms: cloud-covered, overcast, sunless.

Mentally disordered.

Unclear in form or expression. Synonym: blurred. "Sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"

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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"Clouded" Quotes from Famous Books

... faith in the future coming of Christ. Secondly, according as sin was more or less intense, and knowledge concerning Christ more or less explicit. For as time went on sin gained a greater hold on man, so much so that it clouded man's reason, the consequence being that the precepts of the natural law were insufficient to make man live aright, and it became necessary to have a written code of fixed laws, and together with these certain ...

— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... already walked on toward the vessel, she ostentatiously chatting and laughing with him. Moses's brow clouded a little, and Mara noticed it. Moses thought he did not care for Sally; he knew that the little hand that was now lying on his arm was the one he wanted, and yet he felt vexed when he saw Sally ...

— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... professional pursuit will enable him to give a satisfactory reply." In a question before a court of law it is sworn on one side that the moon was shining at a certain hour of a certain night on a certain spot in London; on the other side it is affirmed that she was clouded. The Secretary is requested to decide. This is curious, as the question is not astrological. Persons still send to Greenwich, now and then, to have their fortunes told. In one case, not very many years ago, a young gentleman begged to know who his wife was to be, ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... the grave. Colonel Delany, however, received the orphan infant with the greatest tenderness. Sixteen years of affectionate care had given him a father's place in the heart of Alice, and a father's influence over her. Within the last year the sunshine of Alice's life had been clouded. ...

— The Rector of St. Mark's • Mary J. Holmes

... the air was cooler. We had no zancudos, but the sky was constantly clouded, and without stars. I began to regret the Lower Orinoco. We still advanced but slowly from the force of the current, and we stopped a great part of the day to seek for plants. It was night when we arrived ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt

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