Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand.
- transitive verb To render indistinct or dim; darken.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To darken; obscure; becloud; confuse; bewilder; muddle.
- Darkened; clouded; obscured; muddled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To darken; to obscure; to becloud.
- transitive verb To confuse; to bewilder; to make unclear.
- adjective obsolete Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
dark ;overshadow - verb To
deliberately make moreconfusing in order toconceal the truth. - verb computing To
alter code while preserving its behavior butconceal its structure and intent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make obscure or unclear
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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However, let's distract and obfuscate from the glaring flaws of the current administration and revel in the hate for an administration that is no longer in office.
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And the prize for the most uses of the word obfuscate or derivatives thereof goes to…
Charles Haynes on the Lebec, CA case - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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You STILL haven’t stepped up and argued the points, why you obfuscate is beyond me.
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When it came to discussing facts, she seemed to obfuscate the issue (Sarah, if you're reading this, don't be embarrassed to look up "obfuscate").
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I've just highlighted this post on Twitter and in my resource about How to write an Artist's Statement with the suggestion that it's absolutely essential reading anytime an artist feels tempted to "obfuscate"!
Artist’s Statement Generator James Gurney 2009
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Also, good use of the word obfuscate … and the Marxist stuff … but I know what obfuscate means … and I don’t know anything about Marx himay
Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » Explaining the credit crisis 2008
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If you want it can also "obfuscate" the variables which saves bandwith and as side effect make them harder to reuse (not something you'd want as open source developer).
Planet Apache 2010
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The word "obfuscate" is a word only the very rich would use and will be taxed.
unknown title 2009
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Your email address will be hidden, but it is still recommended that you "obfuscate" your email address, or simply leave a homepage URL.
How Now Brownpau 2008
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Your email address will be hidden, but it is still recommended that you "obfuscate" your email address, or simply leave a homepage URL.
How Now Brownpau 2008
victoriapl commented on the word obfuscate
"Mulder, not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate."
X-files episode "Teliko"
December 3, 2007
bmevans commented on the word obfuscate
"And late at night my memory obfuscates my line of sight"
--Girlyman, "This is Me" (2004)
March 25, 2008
choregurl commented on the word obfuscate
"They don't want you to know that, so they obfuscate the debate by fabricating a disinformation campaign."
From a blog by Rep. Jim McDermott
The Huffington Post article dated August 12, 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-jim-mcdermott/he-neglected-to-tell-you_b_257472.html
August 13, 2009
jwjarvis commented on the word obfuscate
the thesaurus is pretty mediocre. not even illuminate for an antonym. who's in charge of it? how can we help improve it?
November 18, 2010