Ob·fus·cate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obfuscated p. pr. & vb. n. Obfuscating.]
1. To darken; to obscure; to becloud.
2. 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. --Sterne.
Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females. --Sir. W. Scott.
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