Definition of "becloud"
becloud
verb
third-person singular simple present beclouds, present participle beclouding, simple past and past participle beclouded
(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
Quotations
[…] Intemperance and Superfluity beclouds the Mind, dulls the edge of the Apprehension, and brings upon it an unmanly Languor, bearing down all the noble Faculties of the Soul into Ignorance and Stupidity […]
1688, Thomas Tryon, Monthly Observations for the Preserving of Health with a Long and Comfortable Life, London, page 9
(transitive, figurative) To cast in a negative light, cast a pall over, darken.
Quotations
From the shrill triumph with which his name was dragged in, his crime must have been pilfering from a cathedral at least, but as both remembrancers were speaking at once it was difficult to distinguish his infamy from the scandal which beclouded the memory of Mrs. Saunders’ brother’s wife’s mother—who may have been a regicide, and was certainly not a nice person as Mrs. Crick painted her.
1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Blood-Feud of Toad-Water”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], page 35