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class='vi-before' aria-label='example sentence:'>//The team has been under a cloud since its members were caught cheating.

//There's a cloud of controversy hanging over the election.

Verb

//greed clouding the minds of men
//These new ideas only cloud the issue further.
//The final years of her life were clouded by illness.

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1548, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a

History and Etymology

Noun

Middle English, rock, cloud, from Old English clūd; perhaps akin to Greek gloutos buttock

cloud

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1548, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a

History and Etymology

Noun

Middle English, rock, cloud, from Old English clūd; perhaps akin to Greek gloutos buttock

cloud

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