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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overcloud.

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Examples

  • Sunshine restored, even in the flooded quarters, the true Parisian gaiety that had for a time been overclouded with a terrible sense of powerlessness and insecurity.

    The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade 2010

  • Seest thou how, under a brow studiously overclouded, Philip cannot conceal the satisfaction which he feels at the prospect of release from the alliance which sat so heavy on him?

    The Talisman 2008

  • The countenance of Edgar was instantly overclouded.

    Camilla 2008

  • “The stars were overclouded and I could not guide myself by them.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • They had, however, their own peculiar superstitions, which overclouded the mind with thick-coming fancies, as completely as the puritanism of their neighbours.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • Gradually as the intellectual sight became overclouded, these gay visions became obscure, like the dying hues of sunset, until they were at last lost in total oblivion; and Sir Kenneth lay extended at the feet of El Hakim, to all appearance, but for his deep respiration, as inanimate a corpse as if life had actually departed.

    The Talisman 2008

  • Huntingdon, and generously congratulated him upon prospects which seemed to have interfered with and overclouded those which he had himself entertained.

    The Talisman 2008

  • Still, though the horizon was overclouded, no storm for some time ensued.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Yet there was something of majesty, depressed indeed and overclouded, but still grand and imposing, in the manner and words of Father Buonaventure, which it was difficult to reconcile with those preconceived opinions which imputed subtlety and fraud to his sect and order.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

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