Becloud

Quick meaning: Becloud is a verb meaning (transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.

Meaning

(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, usually passive) To cover or surround with clouds.
2. (transitive, figurative) To cast in a negative light, cast a pall over, darken.

Example Sentences

[…] conscience was not to be perverted by the sophistry which had beclouded my reason.

Day light began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o’clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight.

A long sun ray shot to the zenith from the beclouded west, crossing obliquely in a faint red bar the purple band of sky above the ravine.

[C]hildren of his age seldom have a natural pleasure in soap and water. Therefore, […] the surface of his face and hands was dismally beclouded.

Word Forms

• beclouds
• beclouding
• beclouded

Synonyms for becloud

Depending on context, synonyms include obscure, mist, fog, befog, cloud.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include befog, mist, fog, cloud, obscure, confuddle.

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