Synonyms of the word

cloud

• n. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
• n. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
• n. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
• n. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
• n. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
• n. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
• n. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage,…
• n. (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver…
• n. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
• n. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
• v. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
• v. (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
• v. (transitive) To make obscure.
• v. (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
• v. (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
• v. (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.

affect

• v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
• v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
• v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
• v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
• n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
• n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
• n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

becloud

• v. (transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
• v. (transitive, usually passive) To cover or surround with clouds.

befog

• v. To envelop in fog.
• v. To confuse; mystify.

billow

• n. A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.
• v. To surge or roll in billows.
• v. To swell out or bulge.

conceal

• v. (transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

dapple

• n. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
• n. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
• adj. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
• v. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.

darken

• v. (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
• v. (intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
• v. (transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.
• v. (intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
• v. (transitive) To render gloomy, darker in mood.
• v. (intransitive) To become gloomy, darker in mood.
• v. (transitive) To blind, impair eyesight.
• v. (intransitive) To be blinded, loose clear vision.
• v. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
• v. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

defile

• v. (transitive) to make impure; to make dirty.
• n. A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
• n. A single file, such as of soldiers.
• n. The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To march in a single file.

deflower

• v. (transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

fog

• n. (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
• n. (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
• n. A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
• n. (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
• n. (computer graphics) Distance fog.
• v. (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
• v. (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
• v. (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
• v. (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
• v. (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
• v. (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
• v. (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
• v. (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
• v. To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
• n. A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.
• n. (Scotland) Moss.
• v. (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

gloom

• n. Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
• n. A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
• n. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
• n. A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
• v. (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
• v. (intransitive) to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
• v. (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
• v. (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
• v. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

gloominess

• n. The state or condition of being gloomy.

glumness

• n. The emotion of being glum.

hide

• v. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
• v. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
• n. (countable) The skin of an animal.
• n. (obsolete or derogatory) The human skin.
• n. (uncountable, informal, usually US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
• n. (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals…
• v. To beat with a whip made from hide.
• n. (historical) An English unit of land and tax assessment intended to support one household and notionally…

impair

• v. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
• adj. (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate.

impress

• v. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
• v. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
• v. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
• v. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
• v. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
• v. (figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
• v. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
• n. The act of impressing.
• n. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
• n. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
• n. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
• n. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
• n. A heraldic device; an impresa.
• n. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which…

irreality

• n. (uncommon) Unreality.

mar

• v. To spoil, to damage.
• n. A blemish.
• n. A small lake.

mist

• n. (uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
• n. (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
• v. To form mist.
• v. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
• v. To cover with a mist.
• v. (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.

mottle

• v. To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
• n. a distinguishing blotch of color.
• n. mottled coloration or pattern.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

obnubilate

• adj. (obsolete) Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
• v. (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
• v. To make cloudy.

obscure

• adj. Dark, faint or indistinct.
• adj. Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
• adj. difficult to understand.
• adj. not well-known.
• v. (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible,…
• v. (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.

overcast

• n. (obsolete) An outcast.
• n. A cloud covering all of the sky.
• adj. Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
• adj. (figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To overthrow.
• v. (transitive) To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
• v. (transitive) To make gloomy; to depress.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be or become cloudy.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To transform.
• v. (transitive, bookbinding) To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.

sully

• v. (transitive) to soil or stain; to dirty.
• v. (transitive) to damage or corrupt.
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled or tarnished.

suspicion

• n. The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
• n. The condition of being suspected.
• n. Uncertainty, doubt.
• n. A trace, or slight indication.
• n. The imagining of something without evidence.
• v. (nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.

swarm

• n. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
• n. A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
• n. (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
• v. (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
• v. (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
• v. (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
• v. To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
• v. To breed multitudes.

taint

• n. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
• n. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
• n. (obsolete) tincture; hue; colour.
• n. (obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation.
• v. (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
• v. (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
• v. (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
• v. (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are…
• v. (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into…
• n. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
• n. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an…
• v. (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an…
• v. (transitive) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
• v. (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
• n. (slang) The perineum.
• contract. Alternative spelling of 'taint.

unreality

• n. Lack of reality or real existence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being unreal.
• n. (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary.
• n. Unpractical character; visionariness.

vitiate

• v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
• v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
• v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.

wallow

• v. (intransitive) To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
• v. to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder.
• v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
• v. (intransitive) To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
• v. (intransitive, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.
• n. An instance of wallowing.
• n. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
• n. A kind of rolling walk.
• adj. (now dialectal) Tasteless, flat.