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obfuscate /ˈɒbfʌskeɪt /verb [with object]1Make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible: the spelling changes will deform some familiar words and obfuscate their etymological origins...- Is it time to obfuscate obscurantism, so to speak, even to oneself?
- When it comes to password integrity, the key is to obfuscate words as much as possible.
- To the degree that those words are used to obfuscate realities that are otherwise painful to utter, our monuments will be correspondingly fragile.
Synonyms obscure, confuse, make obscure/unclear, blur, muddle, jumble, complicate, garble, muddy, cloud, befog; muddy the waters 1.1Bewilder (someone): the new rule is more likely to obfuscate people than enlighten them...- The main thing is to confuse and obfuscate the audience.
- In that context, Marine's directorial flourishes obfuscate more than they enlighten.
- For example, the supply of gold from official sources is on a 24-hour basis, in spite of the Washington agreement and similar declarations largely drafted in order to obfuscate rather than to enlighten.
Synonyms bewilder, mystify, puzzle, perplex, baffle, confound, bemuse, befuddle, nonplus informal flummox archaic wilder, maze, gravel Derivativesobfuscatory adjective ...- At 511 pages (exactly 500 pages more than the U.S. constitution) and laden with purposefully abstruse and obfuscatory language, the constitution meets only the second of Bonaparte's criteria.
- Government-approved academics in China have already started to trot out obfuscatory arguments designed to refute obvious objections to demands for market-economy status.
- He's hung his statements on a very precise - and to my mind - highly technical and obfuscatory statement that none of them has ‘leaked classified information.’
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin obfuscat- 'darkened', from the verb obfuscare, based on Latin fuscus 'dark'. |