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CLOUDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unclear in form or expression
Example:
sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded
Synonyms:
blurred; clouded
Classified under:
Similar:
unclear (not clear to the mind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Mentally disordered
Example:
a mind clouded by sorrow
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Similar:
confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Filled or abounding with clouds
Synonyms:
cloud-covered; clouded; overcast; sunless
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance
Example:
his face was clouded with unhappiness
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb cloud
Context examples:
There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Jekyll’s Will and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The strong blast and the soft breeze; the rough and the halcyon day; the hours of sunrise and sunset; the moonlight and the clouded night, developed for me, in these regions, the same attraction as for them—wound round my faculties the same spell that entranced theirs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns; when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance; when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterise her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself and kindly disposed towards everyone, had been scarcely ever clouded.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Common eye problems include: • Refractive errors • Cataracts - clouded lenses • Glaucoma - a disorder caused by damage to the optic nerve • Retinal disorders - problems with the nerve layer at the back of the eye • Macular degeneration - a disease that destroys sharp, central vision • Diabetic eye problems • Conjunctivitis - an infection also known as pinkeye
(Eye Diseases, NIH: National Eye Institute)
All of soul-inspiriting fled with sleep, and dark melancholy clouded every thought.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
With lips compressed and clouded brow, he strode up and down the oaken floor, the very genius and impersonation of asceticism, while the great bell still thundered and clanged above his head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Champion Harrison’s good-humoured face clouded over.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Towards evening, however, the breaking of a test-tube brought his research to a premature ending, and he sprang up from his chair with an exclamation of impatience and a clouded brow.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I feared greatly that she might die in the night; but day broke, cold and cheerless, with the same clouded sky and beating wind and roaring seas.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
