clouding
/ˈklaʊdɪŋ/
verb
- 1
To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
“The glass clouds when you breathe on it.”
- 2
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
“The sky is clouded.”
- 3
To make obscure.
“All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.”
- 4
To make less acute or perceptive.
“The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.”
- 5
To make gloomy or sullen.
- 6
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- 7
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
“to cloud yarn”
- 8
To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
noun
- 1
A cloudy appearance.
- 2
A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.
- 3
A diversity of colours in yarn, recurring at regular intervals.
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