Obfuscate v. t. (past & past part. obfuscated; pres. part. 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.""Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females."
adjective
Obfuscate adj. (Written also offuscate) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. (Obs.)
... WORLD. We do work Pictures with the lighter and fruitier forms of drama. But here they would only obfuscate the cerebration. Wait till she cerebrates. And she ... — The Harlequinade - An Excursion • Dion Clayton Calthrop and Granville Barker
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