anublar

A literary variant of nublar — to cloud over (the sky) or, figuratively, to dim or cloud something like one's vision or judgment (anublar la vista, anublar la razón). In agricultural contexts it can also mean for crops to be blighted by fungal disease. Nublar is the everyday word; anublar reads as more formal or old-fashioned.

• Las lágrimas le anublaron los ojos. — Tears clouded his eyes.
• El cielo se anubló de repente antes de la tormenta. — The sky clouded over suddenly before the storm.
• El hongo anubló buena parte de la cosecha de trigo. — The fungus blighted much of the wheat harvest.

Reaching for anublar in casual weather talk — está nublado is what a speaker would actually say; anublar belongs in literary or figurative registers, not small talk about the sky.

Often confused with nublar.