| verb | make overcast or cloudy “Fall weather often overcasts our beaches” |
| verb | make less visible or unclear “The stars are obscured by the clouds” |
| verb | billow up in the form of a cloud “The smoke clouded above the houses” |
| verb | make gloomy or depressed “Their faces were clouded with sadness” |
| verb | place under suspicion or cast doubt upon “sully someone's reputation” |
| verb | make less clear “the stroke clouded memories of her youth” |
| verb | colour with streaks or blotches of different shades |
| verb | make milky or dull “The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added” |
| adjective | made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance “his face was clouded with unhappiness” |
| adjective | filled or abounding with clouds |
| adjective | mentally disordered “a mind clouded by sorrow” |
| adjective | unclear in form or expression; ; - H.G.Wells “the blurred aims of the group” |
| overcast | noun | gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover |
| cloud | noun | a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude |
| clouding | noun | the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky |
| fog | noun | confusion characterized by lack of clarity |
| mottling | noun | the act of coloring with areas of different shades |
| dapple | noun | a small contrasting part of something |