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cloud

 
 
/klaʊd/ verb

Definition

NOT CLEAR [T] to make someone confused, or make something harder to understand: to cloud someone's judgment/vision
NOT SEEING [I, T] If something transparent clouds, it becomes hard to see through, and if something clouds it, it makes it hard to see through.
(Definition of cloud verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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