Definition of "beclouded" [beclouded]

• Simple past tense and past participle of becloud. (verb)

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• "There, the world of Alonis hung in space, a beclouded indigo jewel in the night."
• "In the old Soviet Union, one favorite technique was to have the State Psychiatrist "diagnose" dissidents with what the Soviet communists liked called "sluggish schizophrenia" a sort of incipient schizophrenic/psychotic process that beclouded the "proper" thinking process of a true communist--because, who in their right mind would believe that individual freedom was more important than the collective?"
• "Like him or not, Wicker argues, Nixon was that - until his "fetish for secrecy" undid him, "not just ultimately in Watergate, but in the widespread lack of support and good will of a public that could seldom see his world vision because of the 'crafty atmospherics' that beclouded it.""