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cloud  (kloud)
n.
1.
a. A visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level.
b. A mass, as of dust, smoke, or steam, suspended in the atmosphere or in outer space.
2. A large moving body of things in the air or on the ground; a swarm: a cloud of locusts.
3. Something that darkens or fills with gloom.
4. A dark region or blemish, as on a polished stone.
5. Something that obscures.
6. Suspicion or a charge affecting a reputation.
7. A collection of charged particles: an electron cloud.
v. cloud·ed, cloud·ing, clouds
v.tr.
1. To cover with or as if with clouds: Mist clouded the hills.
2. To make gloomy or troubled.
3. To obscure: cloud the issues.
4. To cast aspersions on; sully: Scandal clouded the officer's reputation.
v.intr.
To become cloudy or overcast: The sky clouded over.
Idiom:
in the clouds
1. Imaginary; unreal; fanciful.
2. Impractical.

[Middle English, hill, cloud, from Old English cld, rock, hill.]

cloudless adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.clouded - made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance; "his face was clouded with unhappiness"
troubled - characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"
2.clouded - filled or abounding with clouds
cloudy - full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies"
3.clouded - mentally disordered; "a mind clouded by sorrow"
confused - mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused"
4.clouded - unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells
unclear - not clear to the mind; "the law itself was unclear on that point"; "the reason for their actions is unclear to this day"


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Hence Quasimodo's gratitude was profound, passionate, boundless; and although the visage of his adopted father was often clouded or severe, although his speech was habitually curt, harsh, imperious, that gratitude never wavered for a single moment.
The tall masts are the pillars supporting the balanced planes that, motionless and silent, catch from the air the ship's motive-power, as it were a gift from Heaven vouchsafed to the audacity of man; and it is the ship's tall spars, stripped and shorn of their white glory, that incline themselves before the anger of the clouded heaven.
The question shot like lightning across a tumultuous sky; and suddenly the clouded horror of my mind condensed into a vivid realisation of my own danger.
 
 
 
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