Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To darken with or as if with clouds; obscure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overcloud; obscure; dim.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb cause to become
obscure ormuddled - verb usually passive cover or surround with clouds
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make less visible or unclear
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have to do the decidin 'myself; I have to interpret the true spirit of the law without technicalities an' quibbles such as becloud it in other an 'higher courts.
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But for Morris it helped becloud a remarkable career of private and public enterprise, of risk and painful dilemma in the context of the unprecedented break between Britain and her former colonies.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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But for Morris it helped becloud a remarkable career of private and public enterprise, of risk and painful dilemma in the context of the unprecedented break between Britain and her former colonies.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Formerly Palestinian neighborhoods were even given Hebrew nationalistic names in order to becloud any memory of their pre-1948 residents.
Michal Lewin-Epstein: Jerusalem Day: The Invisible and the Divisible Michal Lewin-Epstein 2010
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It is in the interest of higher values, Americans understand higher, that is, than theirs that they are now expected to accept official efforts to becloud reality.
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I have no problem with hard concepts, but the writer owes it to the reader not to becloud minds because there is a need to hide behind obscure terminology.
Why art criticism found on art blogs is mostly worthless EAGEAGEAG 2009
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None of these uncertainties can becloud the fact that it will cost enormously less to destroy a square mile with atomic weapons than with any weapons hitherto known to warfare.
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None of these uncertainties can becloud the fact that it will cost enormously less to destroy a square mile with atomic weapons than with any weapons hitherto known to warfare.
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None of these uncertainties can becloud the fact that it will cost enormously less to destroy a square mile with atomic weapons than with any weapons hitherto known to warfare.
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He said the leaders ". allowed greed to becloud their sense of reasoning, an act common to most African leaders."
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