overcloud
Americanverb (used with object)
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to overspread with or as if with clouds.
a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
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to darken; obscure; make gloomy.
a childhood that was overclouded by the loss of his parents.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to make or become covered with clouds
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to make or become dark or dim
Etymology
Origin of overcloud
Example Sentences
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To imagine how and why their home had ripped in two might just overcloud me with despair.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2018
And those conjure images, those, The puppets of loss or gain; Not he who is bare to his doom; For whom never semblance plays To bewitch, overcloud, illume.
From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George
Archaeology is dangerous because it may easily overcloud one's aesthetic sensibility.
From Art by Bell, Clive
She had a gaiety and insouciance, and a natural childlike merriment that all her terrible disasters could not overcloud.
From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Mack, Louise
Enough, my feelings are lighter than they have been; and, though fear and wonder are still around me, they are unable entirely to overcloud the horizon.
From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir
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