| 单词 |
overcloud |
| 释义 |
overcloud, v.|-ˈklaʊd|
[over- 8.]
1. trans. To cloud over; to overspread or cover with a cloud or clouds, or with something that dims or conceals like a cloud.
1592Kyd Sp. Trag. ii. iv, To ouer-cloud the brightnes of the Sunne. 1697Dryden æneid xi. 1193 A gathering mist o'erclouds her cheerful eyes. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 403 The dull, heavy, terreous parts, which overclouded the expansum. 1869Phillips Vesuv. ii. 27 This dust was so abundant that..it overclouded the sun.
2. fig. To cast a shadow over, render gloomy; to make obscure or indistinct to perception, or deprive of clearness of perception; to obscure.
1593Nashe Christs T. Wks. (Grosart) IV. 115 Yea, the Chiefetaines of them, were ouer-clowded in conceite. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. viii. 482 The Speculations of our Scholasticks..will overcloud our Religion. 1781Cowper Conversation 339 Yet still, o'erclouded with a constant frown, He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. 1842Manning Serm. ii. (1848) I. 23 The passing thoughts of evil which overcloud his soul.
3. intr. To become overclouded; to cloud over.
1862Macm. Mag. July 217 He had not been long in office till this fair scene began to overcloud.
Hence overˈclouded ppl. a., overˈclouding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1624) 320 In earthly, ignorant, and overclouded man. a1845Hood Captain's Cow xix, At last with overclouding skies A breeze again began to rise. 1880G. Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 82 It came to an overclouding and then a panic. |
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