cloud

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Meaning

1. To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
2. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
3. Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
4. To make obscure.
5. To make less acute or perceptive.
6. To make gloomy or sullen.
7. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
8. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
9. To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

fog

obnubilate

cloudy weather

erst

get dark

interfere with

cumulus cloud

overcast sky

shade off

cloudness

thundering cloud

the holder of water

white cloud

shades of

bemist

hirsel

cete

obscured sky cover

get clouded

get turbid

open sunshine

cloud computing

verduisteren

bewolken

nublar

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klaʊd/

From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”). Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).