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overcloud
[ oh-ver-kloud ]
verb (used with object)
- to overspread with or as if with clouds:
a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
- to darken; obscure; make gloomy:
a childhood that was overclouded by the loss of his parents.
overcloud
/ ˌəʊvəˈklaʊd /
verb
- to make or become covered with clouds
- to make or become dark or dim
Word History and Origins
Origin of overcloud1
Example Sentences
She had a gaiety and insouciance, and a natural childlike merriment that all her terrible disasters could not overcloud.
Shades of sadness, which gradually assumed a darker character, began to overcloud the young man's temper.
Somewhere, something had happened to overcloud his day, to uncover ancestral resemblances, possibilities.
This may overcloud us all a little if—if anything should happen to Francis Ochterlony.
Athens is such a sun, and Sparta as my foot Shall overcloud it!
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