overcloud

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To imagine how and why their home had ripped in two might just overcloud me with despair.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2018

But his plans were rendered abortive by the strange malady which about that time began to overcloud his splendid genius.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

And those conjure images, those, The puppets of loss or gain; Not he who is bare to his doom; For whom never semblance plays To bewitch, overcloud, illume.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

And yet, for this kind soul, looking into life with such love and hope, I must in a little while overcloud the merited Heaven of to-day, with tidings of my failure in the Catechetical Professorship!

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Judge, then, whether I have not cause to warn you of an indulgence, which may produce so terrible an effect, and which must certainly, if not opposed, overcloud the years, that otherwise might be happy.

From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Radcliffe, Ann Ward