The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overcloud \O`ver*cloud"\, v. t. To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To cover, or become covered, with clouds
WordNet
v. become covered with clouds; "The sky clouded over" [syn: cloud over, cloud up]
make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured" [syn: obscure, bedim]
Usage examples of "overcloud".
From this state of repose, amounting almost to apathy respecting the past, his thoughts were carried forward to the future, which, in spite of all that existed to overcloud the prospect, glittered with such hues as, under much happier auspices, his unstimulated imagination had not been able to produce, even in its most exalted state.
Judge, then, whether I have not cause to warn you of an indulgence, which may produce so terrible an effect, and which must certainly, if not opposed, overcloud the years, that otherwise might be happy.
All those caprices and frowns which had been wont to overcloud their former union had now entirely disappeared.
Yet when he entered the house and faced the old surroundings, an unexpected gloom overclouded him.
And the reason lay in the persecution which overclouded his schooldays.
Yet memory overclouded that hope, as I knew again the sharp pains of my wounded body as I had dragged myself to that place into which I might fling the sword, lest evil find it and turn it to a still greater danger.
She was more interested, however, in the black frown which had overclouded the brow of her father.
Seest thou how, under a brow studiously overclouded, Philip cannot conceal the satisfaction which he feels at the prospect of release from the alliance which sat so heavy on him?
Earl of Huntingdon, and generously congratulated him upon prospects which seemed to have interfered with and overclouded those which he had himself entertained.
Even Delight, with her friendship always overclouded with disapproval.
The stroke which had prostrated the body, which reduced the vigorous, active frame to an awful statue--like stillness--a quietude as of death of itself--had not overclouded the intellect.
The storm which had promised earlier had not yet broken, but the sky outside was still overclouded and now she heard, even through the thickness of the walls about her, a roll of what could only be distant thunder.
Yet when he entered the house and faced the old surroundings, an unexpected gloom overclouded him.
Yet memory overclouded that hope, as I knew again the sharp pains of my wounded body as I had dragged myself to that place into which I might fling the sword, lest evil find it and turn it to a still greater danger.
She was more interested, however, in the black frown which had overclouded the brow of her father.