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/ˈɑbfəskˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Obfuscate v. t. (past & past part. obfuscated; pres. part. obfuscating)

To darken; to obscure; to becloud.

Hence: To confuse; to bewilder; to make unclear. "His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter." "Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females."

adjective

Obfuscate adj. (Written also offuscate) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Obfuscate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Obfuscate" Quotes from Famous Books

... WORLD. We do work Pictures with the lighter and fruitier forms of drama. But here they would only obfuscate the cerebration. Wait till she cerebrates. And she ...

— The Harlequinade - An Excursion • Dion Clayton Calthrop and Granville Barker

... perpetual action, had seized on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment, and had called it Birth. This habit of honouring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of all the other instants had done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux. As well might such as watch the process of the green, unfolding earth, emerging from the brumous arms of winter, isolate a single day and call it Spring. In the tides of rhythm by which the change of form ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... spasmodic by perpetual action, had seized on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment, and had called it Birth. This habit of honouring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of all the other instants had done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux. As well might such as watch the process of the green, unfolding earth, emerging from the brumous arms of winter, isolate a single day and call it Spring. In the tides of rhythm by which the change of form to form was governed'"—Mr. Stone's voice, ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy