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overcloud

[ oh-ver-kloud ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to overspread with or as if with clouds:
a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
to darken; obscure; make gloomy:
a childhood that was overclouded by the loss of his parents.

to become clouded clouded over or overcast:
Toward evening the sky began to overcloud.

overcloud

/ ˌəʊvəˈklaʊd /

First recorded in 1585–95; over- + cloud

She had a gaiety and insouciance, and a natural childlike merriment that all her terrible disasters could not overcloud.

Shades of sadness, which gradually assumed a darker character, began to overcloud the young man's temper.

Somewhere, something had happened to overcloud his day, to uncover ancestral resemblances, possibilities.

This may overcloud us all a little if—if anything should happen to Francis Ochterlony.

Athens is such a sun, and Sparta as my foot Shall overcloud it!

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