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overcloud

[ oh-ver-kloud ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to overspread with or as if with clouds:

    a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.

  2. to darken; obscure; make gloomy:

    a childhood that was overclouded by the loss of his parents.



verb (used without object)

  1. to become clouded clouded over or overcast:

    Toward evening the sky began to overcloud.

overcloud

/ ˌəʊvəˈklaʊd /

verb

  1. to make or become covered with clouds
  2. to make or become dark or dim
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of overcloud1

First recorded in 1585–95; over- + cloud
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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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