overcloud
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.
to become clouded over or overcast: Toward evening the sky began to overcloud.
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How to use overcloud in a sentence
She had a gaiety and insouciance, and a natural childlike merriment that all her terrible disasters could not overcloud.
A Woman's Experience in the Great War | Louise MackShades 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.
Foes | Mary JohnstonThis may overcloud us all a little if—if anything should happen to Francis Ochterlony.
Madonna Mary | Mrs. OliphantAthens is such a sun, and Sparta as my foot Shall overcloud it!
The Mortal Gods and Other Plays | Olive Tilford Dargan
British Dictionary definitions for overcloud
/ (ˌəʊvəˈklaʊd) /
to make or become covered with clouds
to make or become dark or dim
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