OVERCLOUD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overcloud mean? 

• OVERCLOUD (verb)
  The verb OVERCLOUD has 2 senses:

1. become covered with clouds

2. make obscure or unclear

  Familiarity information: OVERCLOUD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERCLOUD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overcloud    ... he / she / it overclouds   
Past simple: overclouded   
Past participle: overclouded   
-ing form: overclouding   

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 "overcloud" is one way to...):

darken (become dark or darker)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make obscure or unclear

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bedim; obscure; overcloud

Context example:

The distinction was obscured

Hypernyms (to "overcloud" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The afternoon came on wet and somewhat misty: as it waned into dusk, I began to feel that we were getting very far indeed from Gateshead: we ceased to pass through towns; the country changed; great grey hills heaved up round the horizon: as twilight deepened, we descended a valley, dark with wood, and long after night had overclouded the prospect, I heard a wild wind rushing amongst trees.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)