Some connect the phrase with the 1895 International Cloud-Atlas (Hildebrandsson, Riggenbach and Teisserenc de Bort), long the basic source for cloud shapes, in which, of the ten cloud types, cloud No. 9, cumulonimbus, was the biggest, puffiest, most comfortable-looking.
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mist
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billow
swarm
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- dense mass
confuse
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darken
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a very large number of things grouped together
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to make dim or indistinct
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to contaminate the reputation of
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any collection of particles (e
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a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
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out of touch with reality
a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
suspicion affecting your reputation
a group of many things in the air or on the ground
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make overcast or cloudy
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make less visible or unclear
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billow up in the form of a cloud
make gloomy or depressed
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
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make less clear
colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
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make milky or dull
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Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:
- cloud(noun)any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visibleSynonyms:
swarm - cloud(noun)a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitudeSynonyms:
swarm - cloud(noun)out of touch with reality'his head was in the clouds'Synonyms:
swarm - cloud(noun)a cause of worry or gloom or trouble'the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French'Synonyms:
swarm - cloud(noun)suspicion affecting your reputation'after that mistake he was under a cloud'Synonyms:
swarm - swarm, cloud(verb)a group of many things in the air or on the ground'a swarm of insects obscured the light'; 'clouds of blossoms'; 'it discharged a cloud of spores'Synonyms:
swarm, drove, horde - overcast, cloud(verb)make overcast or cloudy'Fall weather often overcasts our beaches'Synonyms:
haze over, mist, befog, corrupt, fog, overcast, dapple, obnubilate, becloud, taint, defile, sully, obscure, mottle - obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist(verb)make less visible or unclear'The stars are obscured by the clouds'; 'the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley'Synonyms:
veil, mist, dapple, confuse, blot out, corrupt, overcloud, defile, becloud, fog, blur, haze over, befog, mottle, obnubilate, mist over, obliterate, obscure, overcast, taint, bedim, hide, sully - cloud(verb)billow up in the form of a cloud'The smoke clouded above the houses'Synonyms:
haze over, mist, befog, corrupt, fog, overcast, dapple, obnubilate, becloud, taint, defile, sully, obscure, mottle - cloud(verb)make gloomy or depressed'Their faces were clouded with sadness'Synonyms:
haze over, mist, befog, corrupt, fog, overcast, dapple, obnubilate, becloud, taint, defile, sully, obscure, mottle - defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud(verb)place under suspicion or cast doubt upon'sully someone's reputation'Synonyms:
subvert, besmirch, fog, calumniate, foul, infect, overcast, becloud, befoul, maculate, slander, demoralise, dapple, misdirect, debase, pervert, demoralize, sully, defame, asperse, vitiate, profane, defile, obscure, mist, stain, haze over, taint, smear, denigrate, deprave, mottle, tarnish, buy, befog, grease one's palms, smirch, bribe, debauch, spoil, corrupt, obnubilate - cloud(verb)make less clear'the stroke clouded memories of her youth'Synonyms:
haze over, mist, befog, corrupt, fog, overcast, dapple, obnubilate, becloud, taint, defile, sully, obscure, mottle - mottle, dapple, cloud(verb)colour with streaks or blotches of different shadesSynonyms:
streak, dapple, corrupt, blotch, becloud, fog, defile, befog, mottle, obnubilate, obscure, mist, overcast, taint, sully, haze over - cloud(verb)make milky or dull'The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added'Synonyms:
haze over, mist, befog, corrupt, fog, overcast, dapple, obnubilate, becloud, taint, defile, sully, obscure, mottle