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cloud
- pronunciation:
- klaUd
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word History, Word Builder
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a visible body, usu. white or gray, of fine water droplets high in the earth's atmosphere.
- similar words:
- cirrus, cumulus, fog, haze, mist, nebula, nimbus, pea soup, smog, smoke, steam, stratus, vapor
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| definition 2: |
a similar body of other types of matter such as dust or smoke.
- similar words:
- fog, haze, nebula, puff, smog, smoke, swarm, throng, vapor
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| definition 3: |
something that obscures or darkens.
- synonyms:
- pall, veil
- similar words:
- cloak, mantle, mist, screen, shade, shroud
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| related words: |
chill, fume |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
clouded, clouding, clouds |
| definition 1: |
to cover or darken with clouds or as if by clouds.
- synonyms:
- becloud, cover, darken, overcast, overshadow
- similar words:
- bedim, befog, cloak, dim, fog, mist, muddy, shade, shroud
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| definition 2: |
to make sad or otherwise difficult; trouble.
Illness clouded her childhood.- synonyms:
- afflict, plague, trouble, vex
- similar words:
- annoy, bother, pain, sadden, shadow
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| definition 3: |
to blemish; sully.
His reputation was clouded by a criminal conviction.- synonyms:
- blemish, defame, defile, stain, sully, taint, tarnish
- similar words:
- degrade, discredit, malign, mar, slur, spoil
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| related words: |
eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, occlude, screen, veil |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to become obscure or cloudy (often fol. by up).
- synonyms:
- darken, fog
- similar words:
- dim, gloom, mist, overcast
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| definition 2: |
to show anxiety or distress.
Her face clouded with worry.- similar words:
- trouble
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| related words: |
blur |
| derivations: |
cloudless (adj.), cloudlike (adj.) |
Cloud is from clud, an Old English word that means "rock or hill," and from clouden which means "to dim or darken."
Word Builder: cloud +
- cloudy:
having many clouds.
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