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Cloud

noun

Any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible.

A visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude.

Out of touch with reality.

A cause of worry or gloom or trouble.

Suspicion affecting your reputation.

A group of many things in the air or on the ground. Synonym: swarm. "Clouds of blossoms" , "It discharged a cloud of spores"

verb

(past & past part. clouded; pres. part. clouding)

Make overcast or cloudy. Synonym: overcast.

Make less visible or unclear. Synonyms: becloud, befog, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure. "The big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"

Billow up in the form of a cloud.

Make gloomy or depressed.

Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon. Synonyms: corrupt, defile, sully, taint.

Make less clear.

Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades. Synonyms: dapple, mottle.

Make milky or dull.

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"Cloud" Quotes from Famous Books

... felt less elated than he would have expected from his sudden change. The question of money was the cloud that dulled the brightness of his prospects. As a Volunteer he would receive no pay, and yet he must make a fair show among the young noblemen and gentlemen who would be his companions. Doubtless they would be victualled on board, but he would have to dress well and ...

— When London Burned • G. A. Henty

... within twenty-five hundred-yard range she poured a broadside into the Reina Christina which literally blew that craft into fragments, and the smoke from the guns yet hung like a cloud above the deck when the ill-fated flag-ship sank beneath the waters ...

— The Boys of '98 • James Otis

... elderly couple that preceded her. Halfway out she passed a slip beside which lay moored a heavily built, fifty-foot boat, scarred with usage, a squat and powerful craft. Lakeward stretched a smooth, unrippled surface. Overhead patches of white cloud drifted lazily. Where the shadows from these lay, the lake spread gray and lifeless. Where the afternoon sun rested, it touched the water with gleams of gold and pale, delicate green. A white-winged yacht lay offshore, ...

— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; ...

— Antony and Cleopatra • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... been intrepid enough to laugh when, out of a large woolly cloud a mile aloft, a German flying-machine had suddenly charged him at a hundred miles an hour. He was calm enough now to laugh at the menace of Kedzie's past rushing out of the pink ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

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