becloud

Other forms of becloud

past tense

beclouded·

present participle

beclouding·

third person

beclouds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about becloud

What does becloud mean?

becloud means "make less visible or unclear".

How many syllables are in becloud?

becloud has 2 syllables: be-cloud. The stress falls on "cloud".

What is another word for becloud?

Close synonyms include obscure, befog, obnubilate, haze over, fog. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is becloud a common word?

becloud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.