obfuscate
obfuscate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 38 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [Obs.] [Written also offuscate.] Sir. T. Elyot.
- 2.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- cloud
- cloudiness
- cloudy
- dim
- dirty
- film
- fog
- foggy
- fuliginous
- fumid
- haze
- haziness
- hazy
- impervious
- instrument
- light
- measure
- misty
- muddiness
- muddy
- muggy
- murky
- nephelometer
- nubiferous
- obscurity
- obstruct
- offuscate
- opacity
- opacous
- opaque
- opaqueness
- passage
- smoky
- the
- thick
- turbid
- turbidity
- vaporous
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is obfuscate.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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