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obfuscated

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ob·fus·cate

   [ob-fuh-skeyt, ob-fuhs-keyt]
–verb (used with object),-cat·ed, -cat·ing.
1.
to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
2.
to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information.
3.
to darken.
Use obfuscated in a Sentence
Origin:
1525–35; < LL obfuscātus (ptp. of obfuscāre to darken), equiv. to L ob- ob- + fusc(us) dark + -ātus -ate1

—Related forms
ob·fus·ca·tion, noun
ob·fus·ca·to·ry  [ob-fuhs-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective
un·ob·fus·cat·ed, adjective

—Synonyms
1. muddle, perplex. 2. cloud.

—Antonyms
1. clarify.

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Word Origin & History

obfuscate
1536, from L. obfuscatus, pp. of obfuscare "to darken," from ob "over" + fuscare "to make dark," from fuscus "dark."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

obfuscated definition

programming
Made unclear, used to describe source code that has been transformed or written to make it as hard as possible to read, usually for fun, as in the Obfuscated C Contest. A japh is a kind of obfuscated Perl program.
The term is not normally used for code that has been transformed for security purposes, e.g. to enforce some kind of licencing mechanism.
(2009-05-14)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
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