| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ob·fus·cate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   b f -sk t , b-f skt |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates
1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: “A great effort was made . . . to obscure or obfuscate the truth” (Robert Conquest). 2. To render indistinct or dim; darken: The fog obfuscated the shore. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin obfuscre, obfusct-, to darken : ob-, over; see ob– + fuscre, to darken (from fuscus, dark). | | OTHER FORMS: | obfus·cation —NOUN
ob·fusca·tory (b-fsk-tôr , -t r, b-) —ADJECTIVE
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