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Definition of Cloud up
1. Verb. Become covered with clouds. "The sky clouded over"
Definition of Cloud up
1. Verb. To become cloudy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloud Up
Literary usage of Cloud up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes by Robert Fiske Griggs, National Geographic Society (U.S.) (1922)
"Unfortunately, Mount Martin is so placed that it is the first peak to cloud up
with an approaching storm, and the last to clear again. ..."
2. Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth (1915)
"To emphasize this irregularity a seemingly regular succession of events may be
noticed. It will cloud up, let's say, on a Sunday, ..."
3. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"CELESTE (gazing at the solitary white Cloud): I wonder what your thoughts are,
little Cloud, Up in the sky, so lonely and so proud! ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1897)
"... eddies at its level the eddies break the stratus cloud up into parallel or
nearly parallel masses, while the clear air is drawn in between the eddies. ..."
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