OBFUSCATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obfuscate mean? 

• OBFUSCATE (verb)
  The verb OBFUSCATE has 1 sense:

1. make obscure or unclear

  Familiarity information: OBFUSCATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBFUSCATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they obfuscate    ... he / she / it obfuscates   
Past simple: obfuscated   
Past participle: obfuscated   
-ing form: obfuscating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make obscure or unclear

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "obfuscate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

clarify (make clear and (more) comprehensible)

Derivation:

obfuscation (darkening or obscuring the sight of something)

obfuscation (the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered)

obfuscation (confusion resulting from failure to understand)

 Context examples 

Once you discover the secret, the person who hid it may try to deny or obfuscate the truth, which would only work to compound the situation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)