overcloud

[ oh-ver-kloud ]

/ ˌoʊ vərˈklaʊd /

to overspread with or as if with clouds: a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.

to darken; obscure; make gloomy: a childhood that was overclouded by the loss of his parents.

to become clouded over or overcast: Toward evening the sky began to overcloud.

Origin of overcloud

First recorded in 1585–95; over- + cloud

She had a gaiety and insouciance, and a natural childlike merriment that all her terrible disasters could not overcloud.

A Woman's Experience in the Great War |Louise Mack
Suddenly Annie's shyness, reserve, whatever it was, seemed to overcloud her.

The Butterfly House |Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Shades of sadness, which gradually assumed a darker character, began to overcloud the young man's temper.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction |Various
This may overcloud us all a little if—if anything should happen to Francis Ochterlony.

Madonna Mary |Mrs. Oliphant

An apparatus of such complexity, placed in the fore part of the body, cannot fail to obscure and overcloud its physiognomy.

The Insect |Jules Michelet

overcloud

/ (ˌəʊvəˈklaʊd) /

to make or become covered with clouds

to make or become dark or dim