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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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clouding
noun
the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky

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Clouding

Cloud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Clouding.]

1. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.

2. To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.

One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. --Shak.

Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks. --Milton.

Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice. --M. Arnold.

3. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.

I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken. --Shak.

4. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.

And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. --Pope.

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