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clouden

clouden verb: to make or become cloudy or clouded.

Verb

clouden (third-person singular simple present cloudens, present participle cloudening, simple past and past participle cloudened)

  1. (ambitransitive, figuratively, sometimes) To make or become cloudy or clouded.
    • […] but this served only to deprave his faculties, and to clouden his reason.1804, William Fordyce Mavor, Universal History, Ancient and Modern
    • 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.1951, Burma Weekly Bulletin, page 3

Forms of clouden

third-person singular presentcloudens
present participlecloudening
past participlecloudened
pastcloudened

Origin of clouden

From cloud + -en.

Questions about clouden

What does clouden mean?
Clouden means to make or become cloudy or clouded.
What part of speech is clouden?
Clouden is a verb.
What is the past tense of clouden?
The past tense of clouden is cloudened.

Words near clouden in the dictionary

  1. clouded over
  2. clouded up
  3. clouded yellow
  4. clouded yellows
  5. cloudedly
  6. clouden
  7. cloudened
  8. cloudening
  9. cloudens
  10. clouder
  11. clouders

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