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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cloud \Cloud\ (kloud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clouded}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Clouding}.]
     1. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky
        is clouded.
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     2. To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a
        cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
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              One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
              Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. --Shak.
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              Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
                                                    --Milton.
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              Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty
              like prejudice.                       --M. Arnold.
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     3. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; --
        esp. used of reputation or character.
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              I would not be a stander-by to hear
              My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
              My present vengeance taken.           --Shak.
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     4. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate
        with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
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              And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clouded
       adj 1: made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance;
              "his face was clouded with unhappiness"
       2: filled or abounding with clouds [syn: {cloud-covered}, {overcast},
           {sunless}]
       3: mentally disordered; "a mind clouded by sorrow"
       4: unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the
          group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes
          the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells [syn: {blurred}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "clouded":
     Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, abstruse, ambiguous,
     armored, beclouded, blind, buried, calico, cased, castellatus,
     ceiled, cirrose, cirrous, cloaked, close, cloud-flecked, cloudy,
     coated, concealed, coped, covered, covert, cowled, cumuliform,
     cumulous, curtained, dapple, dappled, dark, dark and gloomy, dirty,
     dubious, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped,
     enwrapped, equivocal, filmed, floored, funereal, gloomful,
     glooming, gloomy, heavy, hid, hidden, hooded, housed, ill-lighted,
     ill-lit, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings,
     incommunicado, latent, lenticularis, loricate, loricated, lowering,
     mammatus, mantled, marbled, masked, motley, mottled, muffled,
     mysterious, nebulous, nimbose, nubilous, obfuscated, obscure,
     obscured, occult, occulted, open, overcast, overclouded, packaged,
     paved, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, problematic,
     recondite, roofed-in, screened, scummed, secluded, secluse, secret,
     sequestered, shady, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded,
     skewbald, somber, sombrous, squally, stormy, stratiform, stratous,
     swathed, tented, thunderheaded, uncertain, unclear,
     under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps,
     underground, unknown, unsettled, veiled, walled, walled-in,
     wrapped, wrapped in clouds
  
  

















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