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Cloud

noun

1.

Any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible.

2.

A visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude.

3.

Out of touch with reality.

4.

A cause of worry or gloom or trouble.

5.

Suspicion affecting your reputation.

6.

A group of many things in the air or on the ground. Synonym: swarm. "Clouds of blossoms" , "It discharged a cloud of spores"

verb

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

1.

Make overcast or cloudy. Synonym: overcast. Antonym: clear up.

2.

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

3.

Billow up in the form of a cloud.

4.

Make gloomy or depressed.

5.

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

6.

Make less clear.

7.

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

8.

Make milky or dull.

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"Cloud" Quotes from Famous Books

... there being nothing very binding about an oath administered to the lower orders of our people without the ancient solemnity of cutting off a chicken's head and burning some yellow paper at the same time, the interested parties naturally drum up a cloud of witnesses who are cheerfully willing to give evidence without ever knowing anything about the matter in hand. The judge has a custom of rattling through with as much of this testimony as his patience will stand, and then shutting off the rest ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... nee Lucille Brewster, was small and slender. She had a little animated face, set in a cloud of dark hair. She was so altogether perfect that Archie had frequently found himself compelled to take the marriage-certificate out of his inside pocket and study it furtively, to make himself realise that this miracle of good fortune had ...

— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse

... bustle and cheer of this week another swift and sinister cloud descended upon me. One evening, as mother and I were sitting together, she fell into a terrifying death-like trance from which I could not rouse her, a condition which alarmed me so deeply that I telegraphed to my father in Dakota and to my brother in Chicago, telling them to come ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven. Michael Angelo, Pt. II. ...

— The World's Best Poetry -- Volume 10 • Various

... some passing body of students and the faint sound he could hear was for the moment almost like the echo of long past days. The very hall seemed to echo also with the footfalls of students who had long since completed their course and passed on. He was surrounded by a cloud of witnesses. ...

— Winning His "W" - A Story of Freshman Year at College • Everett Titsworth Tomlinson

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