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Definition of cloud : 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
2. A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
3. A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
4. A large, loosely- knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
5. A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
6. That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
7. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; - esp. used of reputation or character.
8. To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
9. To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; - often used with up.
10. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
11. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.

Synonyms:

besmirch, clear up, score, show, cancel out, obliterate, boil away, film, distract, subvert, offset, flaw, infect, besmear, becloud, shadow, debase, deprave, boil up, bamboozle, puff, overcloud, hammer blow, impractical, ruck, overcast, darkness, billow, break, smear, legion, blur, render, sully, calumniate, swarm, offer, absent-minded, obstruct, hide, buy, befog, evil, attack, divert, bespatter, dimness, bank, cirrostratus, asperse, manifest, display, obnubilate, taint, drove, confound, bribe, streak, bewilder, spatter, haze over, veil, misdirect, ease, loose on, give away, spoil, smudge, demoralize, preoccupy, blow, dirty, nebula, break down, debauch, cumulonimbus, big, dust, flock, tarnish, hank, rack, lost in reverie, cloudy, lift, vitiate, smoke, close in, fibre, discombobulate, horde, dapple, blindfold, obscurity, column, deterrent, clean, dull, soil, fault, fickle, defile, fantastic, spot, grease one's palms, pall, befoul, atomize, knot, neutralize, harm, defame, damage, bake, cirrocumulus, kiss of death, cost, denigrate, fiber, mob, disincentive, boil over, profane, stain, disorient, warning, cloudiness, visionary, bedim, clear, blot out, blind, crime, surrender, foul, army, frost, mist over, express yourself, blemish, multitude, corrupt, mottle, goad, blear, deterrence, host, group, brighten up, voice, pervert, smirch, slander, gloom, maculate, break through, throng, block, make no secret of something, smut, demoralise, mass, blotch, crowd

cumulo-nimbus, mist, cirro-stratus, strato-cumulus, stratus, nimbus, cumulo-cirrus, haze, thunderhead, cirro-velum, cumulo-stratus, rain cloud, thundercloud, cumulo-cirro-stratus, storm cloud, vapor, cirrus, cirro-cumulus, cumulus

muddle, misconstrue, obscure, perplex, fluster, mistake, confuse, baffle

boil, lather, effervescence, bubble, effervesce, aerate, spray, balloon, froth, fizz, foam, surf

darken, blacken, shade, dim

obfuscate, overshadow

eclipse, fog

Usage examples:

• Ride out from the smoke- cloud, or remain under its favouring shelter? - "The Lone Ranche", Captain Mayne Reid.
• She felt that nothing save the loss of her dear ones would have hurt her more than to have been dismissed from school under a cloud. - "Marjorie Dean, High School Junior", Pauline Lester.
• There is no rainbow in the sky unless there be both a black cloud and bright sunshine. - "Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)", Alexander Maclaren.