clouded : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: clouded	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for clouded
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
clouded adj made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance; "his face was clouded with unhappiness" filled or abounding with clouds Synonym(s): cloud-covered, clouded, overcast, sunless mentally disordered; "a mind clouded by sorrow" unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells Synonym(s): blurred, clouded
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cloud \Cloud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clouded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clouding}.] 1. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded. 2. To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen. One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. --Shak. Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks. --Milton. Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice. --M. Arnold. 3. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character. I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken. --Shak. 4. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn. And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. --Pope.