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Adjective: clouded  klawdid
  1. Made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance
    "his face was clouded with unhappiness"
     
  2. Filled or abounding with clouds
    - cloud-covered, overcast, sunless
     
  3. Mentally disordered
    "a mind clouded by sorrow"
     
  4. Unclear in form or expression
    "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"
    - blurred
Verb: cloud  klawd
  1. Make overcast or cloudy
    - overcast
     
  2. Make less visible or unclear
    "The stars are obscured by the clouds"
    - obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, mist
     
  3. Billow up in the form of a cloud
    "The smoke clouded above the houses"
     
  4. Make gloomy or depressed
    "Their faces were clouded with sadness"
     
  5. Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
    - defile, sully, corrupt, taint
     
  6. Make less clear
    "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"
     
  7. Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
    - mottle, dapple
     
  8. Make milky or dull
    "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"

See also: cloud over, clouding, cloudy, confused, troubled, unclear

Type of: affect, alter, billow, change, conceal, darken, deflower, dull, hide, impair, impress, mar, modify, move, spoil, spot, strike, vitiate, wallow

Encyclopedia: Cloud Cloud, Castle, Lake