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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. Antonym: clear up.

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

... Astronomer Royal, to whom it has been submitted; but it would have been a beautiful symbol of translation, such as affectionate fancy might gladly cherish if it were true. It is indeed true that on that twelfth of December, a vivid centre of light and warmth was extinguished upon our earth. The clouded brightness of many lives bears witness to the poet spirit which has departed, the glowing human presence which has passed away. We mourn the poet whom we have lost far less than we regret the man: for he had done his appointed ...

— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... circumstances with horror and repulsion. There was pain, bodily pain; there was mental anguish; there was the howling mob, the horrid contempt for Him as for a malefactor; the lost disciples and shattered hopes; the reviling thief; the mystery of the Father's clouded face; the final sinking down; the letting go of life; the last physical struggle—when He gave up the ghost ...

— Our Master • Bramwell Booth

... the little bell, which hung from the ceiling, struck eight tinkling notes and Glory's face clouded. There was nothing in the tiny cupboard on the wall save a remnant of porridge from breakfast, that had cooled and stiffened, and the ...

— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond

... charges, always as improbable as injurious, now became too horrible for my ears; he disbelieved you had taken up the money for Harrel, he discredited that you visited the Belfields for Henrietta: passion not merely banished his justice, but, clouded his reason, and I soon left the room, that at least I might not hear the aspersions he forbid ...

— Cecilia vol. 3 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)

... been on of those dull, weepy days when a sullen drizzle clouded sky and earth. In consequence, the walls and floors of Pirate's Haven seemed to exude chill. Rupert built a fire in the hall fireplace, but none of the family could say that it was a successful one. It made a nice show of leaping flame accompanied by fancy ...

— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton

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