Meaning

(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

[…] Intemperance and Superfluity beclouds the Mind, dulls the edge of the Apprehension, and brings upon it an unmanly Languor, bearing down all the noble Faculties of the Soul into Ignorance and Stupidity […]

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

[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.

She thought of Eleanor with her habit of giving spontaneous utterance to stray and irresponsible accusations. Caroline found the true facts everywhere beclouded.

And then while you're a cooking, they say, / Such a fogo beclouds all the room, / That the girls have to group out the way, / In search of the tongs or the broom.

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.

1856, Abraham Lincoln, speech given on 19 May, 1856 in Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, London: J.M. Dent, 1907, p. 46, We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Word Forms

• beclouds
• beclouding
• beclouded

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