clouden
English
Etymology
From cloud + -en.
Verb
clouden (third-person singular simple present cloudens, present participle cloudening, simple past and past participle cloudened)
- (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To make or become cloudy or clouded.
- 1804, William Fordyce Mavor, Universal History, Ancient and Modern:
- […] but this served only to deprave his faculties, and to clouden his reason.
- 1951, Burma Weekly Bulletin, page 3:
- Brothers and Sisters, just as I have confidence in the ultimate good of my country, so also have I faith in the Indi., greater to be, free from all tensions and uncertainties which cloudened her political horizon recently.
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Anagrams
- encloud