Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun clouding
1 sense of clouding
Sense 1
clouding, clouding up -- (the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky)
=> vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, vapour, evaporation -- (the process of becoming a vapor)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cloud
8 senses of cloud
Sense 1
overcast, cloud -- (make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches")
=> darken -- (make dark or darker; "darken a room")
Phrasal Verb-> cloud over#1; cloud up#1
Sense 2
obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist -- (make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley")
=> hide, conceal -- (prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money")
Sense 3
cloud -- (billow up in the form of a cloud; "The smoke clouded above the houses")
=> billow, wallow -- (rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up into the sky")
Sense 4
cloud -- (make gloomy or depressed; "Their faces were clouded with sadness")
=> affect, impress, move, strike -- (have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd")
Sense 5
defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud -- (place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation")
=> mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate -- (make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty")
Sense 6
cloud -- (make less clear; "the stroke clouded memories of her youth")
=> change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")
Sense 7
mottle, dapple, cloud -- (colour with streaks or blotches of different shades)
=> spot -- (mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition; "spot the areas that one should clearly identify")
Sense 8
cloud -- (make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added")
=> dull -- (make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel")