cloud  (kloud) 
n. 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. 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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