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OBFUSCATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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)
