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Becloud

Becloud \Be*cloud"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beclouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Beclouding.] To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.

If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye.
--Quarles.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
becloud

1590s, from be- + cloud. Figurative sense of "to obscure" is recorded from 1610s. Related: Beclouded; beclouding.

Wiktionary
becloud

vb. 1 cause to become obscure or muddled 2 (context usually passive English) cover or surround with clouds

WordNet
becloud

v. make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds" [syn: obscure, befog, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist]

Usage examples of "becloud".

Feeling more able, more in control, she closed her eyes and concentrated on raising her taw, on cutting through the fog that beclouded her mind.

Ob-versely, it operates to becloud the sense of mine and thine in the trustee of public or private funds, when a kinsman calls.

From the shrill triumph with which his name was dragged in, his crime must have been pilfering from a cathedral at least, but as both remembrancers were speaking at once it was difficult to distinguish his infamy from the scandal which beclouded the memory of Mrs.

In this gray, beclouded, chilly land, where the bleak, restless wind bends low and razes to the ground everything that standing alone would lift up its head, less rude anguish is suffered nevertheless than among the sunny, luxuriant, blue-skied hills of my beautiful native land.

Once more they succeeded in bringing back to the light of consciousness her beclouded spirit.

Uberlasch felt phlegmatically confident that he had nothing to apologize for in the bomb that had silenced Lester Boyd-although it was one of his less intricate contraptions, it had been entirely adequate for the job, and the conscientious craftsmanship that went into it was evidenced by the fact that it had admittedly hurt no extraneous characters whose injury might have beclouded the issue and unnecessarily increased the volume of public indignation.

Faint traces of beclouded dawn showed them three long lines of dark-robed figures moving in on the heel stone, each of them holding a flaming oak torch in his left hand.

Dea brought me some soup she had made, and I sat for a time holding it in my hands, staring into the steaming liquid as at my own beclouded future, and I felt myself sinking beneath a weight I could no longer carry.

Material eyes are but the windows of the Soul, and your environment has so beclouded your vision that you grasp but little of the real things beyond.

Your scientific methods instead of leading you onward towards the Central Sun of Spiritual enlightenment has so beclouded your vision that your race today--that is, the so-called enlightened and learned portions of your population--have been deflected from the main path, and they will soon find themselves pursuing an illusionary will-o'-the-wisp.

The sound of a person's steps, and then, as Slade stood rigidly, Jack Dowland appeared, young and good-look­ing, with slightly-thinning brown hair, wearing a sweater and slacks, his lean, intelligent face beclouded with a frown.

The sound of a person's steps, and then, as Slade stood rigidly, Jack Dowland appeared, young and good-looking, with slightly-thinning brown hair, wearing a sweater and slacks, his lean, intelligent face beclouded with a frown.

At his shoulder, Bannor stood-hard, implacable and dangerous, as if the Bloodguard’s mere touch might scatter his beclouded being to the winds.

At his shoulder, Bannor stood-hard, implacable and dangerous, as if the Bloodguard's mere touch might scatter his beclouded being to the winds.

They went outside-though not through the main entranceway-and the Emperor's guards conducted them with torches across a dark garden space and along a stone path with statuary strewn about them, looming and receding in the windy, beclouded night Crispin could hear the sea.