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obfuscateob‧fus‧cate /ˈɒbfəskeɪt $ ˈɑːb-/ verb [transitive] formal obfuscateOrigin: 1500-1600 Late Latin past participle of obfuscare, from Latin fuscus ‘dark brown’ VERB TABLEobfuscate |
Present | I, you, we, they | obfuscate | | he, she, it | obfuscates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | obfuscated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have obfuscated | | he, she, it | has obfuscated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had obfuscated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will obfuscate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have obfuscated |
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Present | I | am obfuscating | | he, she, it | is obfuscating | | you, we, they | are obfuscating | Past | I, he, she, it | was obfuscating | | you, we, they | were obfuscating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been obfuscating | | he, she, it | has been obfuscating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been obfuscating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be obfuscating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been obfuscating |
- Politicians have once again obfuscated the issue.
- Comedy obtrudes too to obfuscate matters still further.
- Ideology, the ideas which rationalize a person's class interests, obfuscates scientific analysis.
- This ambiguity obfuscates the distinct voices of Proust's text and de Man's and divides the responsibility for the proposition.
to deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand SYN confuse—obfuscation /ˌɒbfəˈskeɪʃən $ ˌɑːb-/ noun [uncountable] |