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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
      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
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