becloud

American  

[bih-kloud] / bɪˈklaʊd /

verb (used with object)

1. to darken or obscure with clouds.

2. to make confused.

   Angry words beclouded the issue.

   Synonyms:

   muddle, obfuscate, befog, obscure, confuse

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becloud British  

/ bɪˈklaʊd /

verb

1. to cover or obscure with a cloud

2. to confuse or muddle

   to becloud the issues

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Other Word Forms

• unbeclouded adjective

Etymology

Origin of becloud

First recorded in 1590–1600; be- + cloud

Example Sentences

Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o’clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight.

From Literature

Fortunately, the ruling does not retroactively undo the debt restructuring achieved so far, but it does becloud the future, because the court gave the president and the Senate only 90 days to “reconstitute” the board.

From Washington Post

That confusion beclouds the climactic sequence of the singing contest.

From The New Yorker

I think his sense of candor and fairness is beclouded by his desire to make $billions more.

From New York Times

It says “Germans must surely know that by misappropriating” Nazi symbols, “they belittle and becloud” past crimes.

From Seattle Times