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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To cause to become obscure or muddle d.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1688 | author=w:Thomas Tryon | title=Monthly Observations for the Preserving of Health with a Long and Comfortable Life | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63801.0001.001 | page=9 | location=London
|passage=[...] _Intemperance_ and _Superfluity_ BECLOUDS the Mind, dulls the
edge of the Apprehension, and brings upon it an _unmanly Languor_, bearing
down all the noble Faculties of the Soul into Ignorance and Stupidity [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1799 | author=w:Mary Ann Radcliffe | title=The Female Advocate | location=London | publisher=Vernor & Hood | chapter=The Story of Fidelia | page=164 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004883163.0001.000
|passage=[...] conscience was not to be perverted by the sophistry which had
BECLOUDED my reason.}}
1. * [volume=I]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1957 | author=w:Muriel Spark | title=w:The Comforters | location=New York | publisher=Avon | year_published=1965 | section=Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 196 | url=https://archive.org/details/comforters00spar
|passage=She thought of Eleanor with her habit of giving spontaneous utterance
to stray and irresponsible accusations. Caroline found the true facts
everywhere BECLOUDED.}}
1. [en] To cover or surround with clouds.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1824 | title=The New England Farmer | volume=2 | page=176
|passage=And then while you're a cooking, they say, / Such a fogo BECLOUDS all
the room, / That the girls have to group out the way, / In search of the tongs
or the broom.}}
1. * [volume=I]
2. * [chapter=X]
3. [en] To cast in a negative light , cast a pall over, darken .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1649 | author=w:Francis Quarles | title=The Virgin Widow | location=London | publisher=R. Royston | section=act I | page=8 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56843.0001.001
|passage=What Fury has possest thee? What strange fit<br>Usurps thy patience,
and BECLOUDS thy brow?}}
1. * 1856 , [Abraham Lincoln] , speech given on 19 May, 1856 in _Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln_ , London: J.M. Dent, 1907, p. 46, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/speechesletterso02linc </sup>
2. *: We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety BECLOUDS the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
3. * [story=Blood-Feud of Toad-Water]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[cause to become obscure or muddled]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
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*** Anagrams
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