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cloud

 
/klɑʊd/ v [T]

Definition

to fill with clouds or with something that looks like a cloud: [T] Smoke clouded the sky. If something clouds a situation or feeling, it makes it less clear: The fact that Jack was an old friend clouded her judgment.
(Definition of cloud v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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