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Explaining and Clouding

explaining
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Explain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
clouding

noun

  • The process whereby water particles become visible in the sky.

verb

  • Make overcast or cloudy.
    • usage: "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
  • Make less visible or unclear.
    • usage: "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"
  • Billow up in the form of a cloud.
    • usage: "The smoke clouded above the houses"
  • Make gloomy or depressed.
    • usage: "Their faces were clouded with sadness"
  • Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.
    • usage: "sully someone's reputation"
  • Make less clear.
    • usage: "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"
  • Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.
  • Make milky or dull.
    • usage: "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"
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