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Obfuscate : (verb)
1: make obscure or unclear [ant: clarify]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Obfuscate : \Ob*fus"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obfuscated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Obfuscating.]
To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to
bewilder.
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.
--Sterne.
Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects
of meaner females. --Sir. W.
Scott.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Obfuscate : \Ob*fus"cate\, a. [L. obfuscatus, p. p. of obfuscare
to darken; ob (see Ob-) _ fuscare, fuscatum, to darken,
from fuscus dark.]
Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [Obs.] [Written also
offuscate.] --Sir. T. Elyot.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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