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–adjective

1.	confused; muddled; disordered: a mind clouded by sorrow.

2.	covered with or as if with clouds.

[Origin: 1590–1600; cloud + -ed²

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n.

1. 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.
2. A mass, as of dust, smoke, or steam, suspended in the atmosphere or in outer space.
A large moving body of things in the air or on the ground; a swarm: a cloud of locusts.
Something that darkens or fills with gloom.
A dark region or blemish, as on a polished stone.
Something that obscures.
Suspicion or a charge affecting a reputation.
A collection of charged particles: an electron cloud.

v. cloud·ed, cloud·ing, clouds

v. tr.

To cover with or as if with clouds: Mist clouded the hills.
To make gloomy or troubled.
To obscure: cloud the issues.
To cast aspersions on; sully: Scandal clouded the officer's reputation.

v. intr.
To become cloudy or overcast: The sky clouded over.

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

cloud'less adj.

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clouded
adjective
1.	made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance; "his face was clouded with unhappiness"
2.	filled or abounding with clouds [syn: cloud-covered]
3.	mentally disordered; "a mind clouded by sorrow"
4.	unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells [syn: blurred]