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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BECLOUD', v.t. [See Cloud.] To cloud; to obscure; to dim.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1598 1. to obscure with or as if with a cloud 2. to prevent clear perception or realization of ; muddle <prejudices that becloud his judgment>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 obscure (becloud the argument). 2 cover with clouds.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Becloud Be*cloud", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beclouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Beclouding.] To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. --Quarles.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Dim, bedim, obscure, darken, bedarken, cloud.

Moby Thesaurus

addle, addle the wits, ball up, bedarken, bedazzle, bedim, befog, befuddle, begloom, bemist, bewilder, black, black out, blacken, blanket, blind, block the light, blot out, blur, bother, brown, bug, camouflage, cast a shadow, clabber up, cloak, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, conceal, confuse, cover, cover up, curtain, darken, darken over, daze, dazzle, dim, dim out, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disguise, disorganize, disorient, dissemble, distract attention from, disturb, eclipse, embarrass, encloud, encompass with shadow, enmist, ensconce, enshroud, entangle, envelop, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fuss, gloom, gloss over, haze, hide, keep under cover, mask, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, muddy, murk, nubilate, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, opaque, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, screen, shade, shadow, shroud, slur over, smog, smoke, somber, throw into confusion, unsettle, upset, varnish, veil, whitewash