to becloud
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8.9
- verb
- /bɪˈklaʊd/
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nublar
- I went by way of Ithaca, glimpsing Lake Cayuga, still gently beclouded with morning fog and mist, but shining with a placid prettiness.
- beclouded mind
Examples
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Every memory I have is beclouded by unanswered questions.
Fiction book (1990) -
From the perspective of Anglo-American culture, the motivation for polygyny in other societies is somewhat beclouded by myth.
Academic text (1991) -
You have been here several days and nights, worshipping your Indian god, who has no existence, only in your dark and beclouded minds.
Academic text (1992) -
Pape's numbers add up only through dubious choices that becloud any claim to statistical relevance.
Academic text (2015) -
Though much of the information he reported was obviously true, what he did not report beclouded the story and called attention to many of its implicit contradictions.
Academic text (1991) -
Too fine a day, too late in the season, to becloud with the likes of that; he wished his Paula in Minneapolis and Joan's Harold in Atlanta a day as fine, a season, a life.
Fiction book (1995) -
Barnard stayed at the gallery for seventeen years, supporting his mother, in her later years an invalid "with a beclouded mind," and observing the sky from the roof at night.
Academic text (1992) -
Something is "profoundly wrong" because the horizon of thought itself is increasingly beclouded, even despoiled; the order of nature (yes, nature) is ruptured, and the result is estrangement, demoralization, and indifference.
Academic text (1992) -
The dense fog began to becloud our view of the mountains in the distance.
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Over time, misleading information can becloud the truth of a situation.
Synonyms
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7.0
Make something hard to see or understand
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4.4
To make something less clear or bright by covering it
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5.4
To make something darker by blocking light
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5.2
To make something hard to see or understand
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3.1
To become covered with fine drops that make something less clear
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4.7
To become cloudy and hard to see through
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3.2
To become cloudy in the sky
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3.4
The sky becomes covered with clouds and looks less bright
To make something hard to see or understand
To make something, like light and memory, less bright or clear
Make something unclear or hard to understand
Look less clear as if covered by a thin mist
To cover the sky with clouds and make it look dark
Sky becomes covered with clouds and looks gray
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Etymology
The word becloud is made of the be- part meaning 'make' or 'cover with' and the common word cloud, so it originally meant to 'cover with cloud'. So, to becloud something is to make it hard to see or understand.