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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

... she said, "on a mountain road." But she stood watching him, with the uncertainty still clouding her face, while he moved down ...

— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson

... Look abroad, and tell us, sister, whither rolls the storm we hear. Down the hills of Angostura still the storm of battle rolls; Blood is flowing, men are dying; God have mercy on their souls! "Who is losing? who is winning?" Over hill and over plain, I see but smoke of cannon clouding through ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... Jack felt rather affronted. Over there seemed a long way. Then it was clouding up and night was coming on. He went straight along, but now he was hungry, and his little legs ached. He had been instructed if he was ever lost to ask the way to Arch Street. ...

— A Modern Cinderella • Amanda M. Douglas

... this revelation which had added the smoke barrage of doubt to the situation, clouding his faculties and temporarily stifling his faith. In the face of this, how could he still trust? Yet he had promised to trust, to believe, "whatever happened." Those had been his own words, and she had wept and told him he ...

— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan

... imagine, although I discovered afterwards that they were lobster traps. The only light which entered was through the cracks of the old broken door, but these were so wide and numerous that I could see the whole of the room which I had just quitted. Sick and faint, with the shadow of death still clouding my wits, I was none the less fascinated by the scene which lay ...

— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle

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