clouden

English

Etymology

From cloud +‎ -en.

Verb

clouden (third-person singular simple present cloudens, present participle cloudening, simple past and past participle cloudened)

1. (ambitransitive, sometimes figurative) To make or become cloudy or clouded.
   • 1804, William Fordyce Mavor, Universal History, Ancient and Modern:

     […] but this served only to deprave his faculties, and to clouden his reason.

   • 1951, Burma Weekly Bulletin, page 3:

     Brothers and Sisters, just as I have confidence in the ultimate good of my country, so also have I faith in the Indi., greater to be, free from all tensions and uncertainties which cloudened her political horizon recently.

Anagrams

• encloud

Middle English

Noun

clouden

1. (Southern) plural of cloud