Becloud
[bi'klaud]
Definition
(v. t.) To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.
Typist: Patricia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Dim, bedim, obscure, darken, cloud.
Checked by Elton
Definition
v.t. to obscure by clouds: to dim.
Inputed by Kari
Examples
- Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o'clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I look out at some early hour of the day, and see a fine, perfect rainbow, bright with promise, gloriously spanning the beclouded welkin of life. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And she freezes the blood in his heart, and beclouds the light in his eye. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Morton