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Cloud

A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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Broader term 26

Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Billow 76% connected

A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Conceal 76% connected

To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.

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Darken 76% connected

To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

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Deflower 76% connected

Same as Deflour.

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Dull 76% connected

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

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Gloom 76% connected

Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

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Gloominess 76% connected

State of being gloomy.

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Glumness 76% connected

Moodiness; sullenness.

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Grouping 76% connected

of Group

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Hide 76% connected

To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

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Impair 76% connected

To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.

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Impress 76% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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Mar 76% connected

A small lake. See Mere.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Spoil 76% connected

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Suspicion 76% connected

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very sl…

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Unreality 76% connected

The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.

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Vitiate 76% connected

To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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Wallow 76% connected

To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

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Narrower term 12

Cirrocumulus 76% connected

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Cirrostratus 76% connected

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Cirrus 76% connected

A tendril or clasper.

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Coma 76% connected

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

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Cumulus 76% connected

One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.

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Mushroom 76% connected

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitis…

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Nebula 76% connected

A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star cl…

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Nebule 76% connected

A little cloud; a cloud.

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Nimbus 76% connected

A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. Se…

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Plague 76% connected

That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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Stratus 76% connected

A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.

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Thundercloud 76% connected

A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.

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Manner of action 5

Harlequin 76% connected

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; origi…

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Haze 76% connected

Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively…

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Overshadow 76% connected

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.

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Speckle 76% connected

A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.

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Stipple 76% connected

To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

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Derivationally related 10

Cloudy 74% connected

Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.

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Cloudy 74% connected

Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.

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Defile 74% connected

To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

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Defile 74% connected

To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

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Overcast 74% connected

To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.

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Overcast 74% connected

To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.

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Pullulate 74% connected

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

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Pullulate 74% connected

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

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Member part 1

Insect 70% connected

One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.

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Containing whole 1

Sky 70% connected

A cloud.

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Synonym 14

Becloud 92% connected

To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.

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Befog 92% connected

To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.

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Corrupt 92% connected

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Dapple 92% connected

One of the spots on a dappled animal.

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Defile 92% connected

To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

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Fog 92% connected

A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

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Mist 92% connected

Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

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Mottle 92% connected

To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

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Obnubilate 92% connected

To cloud; to obscure.

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Obscure 92% connected

Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.

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Overcast 92% connected

To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.

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Sully 92% connected

To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.

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Swarm 92% connected

To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.

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Taint 92% connected

A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

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