CLOUD OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cloud over mean? 

• CLOUD OVER (verb)
  The verb CLOUD OVER has 2 senses:

1. become covered with clouds

2. become overcast

  Familiarity information: CLOUD OVER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOUD OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become covered with clouds

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

cloud over; cloud up; overcloud

Context example:

The sky clouded over

Hypernyms (to "cloud over" is one way to...):

darken (become dark or darker)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
It is ----ing

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become overcast

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the sky clouded over

Hypernyms (to "cloud over" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

I know not about that, said John, for it casts a great cloud over me when I think of such matters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A cataract is a cloud over the lens of your eye.

(Diabetic Eye Problems, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Though Mr. Rivers had started at the first of those musical accents, as if a thunderbolt had split a cloud over his head, he stood yet, at the close of the sentence, in the same attitude in which the speaker had surprised him—his arm resting on the gate, his face directed towards the west. He turned at last, with measured deliberation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)