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o⋅ver⋅cloud

  [oh-ver-kloud]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to overspread with or as if with clouds: a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
2. to darken; obscure; make gloomy: a childhood that was overclouded by the loss of his parents.
–verb (used without object)
3. to become clouded over or overcast: Toward evening the sky began to overcloud.
Origin:
1585–95; over- + cloud
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o·ver·cloud   (ō'vər-kloud')   
v.   o·ver·cloud·ed, o·ver·cloud·ing, o·ver·clouds

v.   tr.

  1. To cover with clouds.

  2. To make dark and gloomy.

v.   intr.
To become cloudy.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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