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")

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