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[ob-fuh-skeyt, ob-fuhs-keyt]

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verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.

to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.

to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information.

to darken.

Origin:
1525–35; < Late Latin obfuscātus (past participle of obfuscāre to darken), equivalent to Latin 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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Example Sentences

The only obfuscation is the use of online pseudonyms to protect the civilian contract employees from potential retaliation.

Those who produce such pieces have a talent for obfuscation and an endless supply of drivel.

Not so coincidentally, that obfuscation seems deliberate somehow on the author's part.

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The only obfuscation is the use of online pseudonyms to protect the civilian contract employees from potential retaliation.

Those who produce such pieces have a talent for obfuscation and an endless supply of drivel.

Not so coincidentally, that obfuscation seems deliberate somehow on the author's part.

Fortunately, the authors' attempts at obfuscation do not altogether succeed.

Obscurantism and obfuscation on national television.

Such wholesale obfuscation can't be done on an ad-hoc basis, or by a loose coalition of existing agencies.

Supporters saw an innovative warrior against scholarly obfuscation.

Today an invigorated opposition and an unfettered online media have made apathy and obfuscation harder.

Tufte is one of the world's leading experts on a core tool of skepticism: how to see through information obfuscation.

They're using mind-bending obfuscation techniques to deliver malicious code from hacked websites undetected.

It's disorienting stuff, in keeping with the recent move in indie music toward obfuscation and haze.

They are talking about the merits of obfuscation as a means of avoiding referendums.

Mixing units in an article is deliberate obfuscation.

The result is a book whose coherence is achieved only at the expense of a good deal of omission, obfuscation and bad history.

In other words, this would appear to be an obfuscation rather than a cleaning up.

Obfuscation is the process of making information difficult to understand.

Our convoluted legislation has little to do with effective laws and everything to do with obfuscation for special interests.

When one factors in political/religious nonsense into the equation, the result is obfuscation.

Both books provide countless examples of omission, obfuscation and outright lying.

But all this came after days of mealy-mouthed denial and obfuscation.

Unfortunately, where the votes of the elderly are concerned, it is too easy to slide into demagoguery and obfuscation.

But the obfuscation and outright lying is a discredit to the country.

Being flush with other people's money is often emboldening and obfuscation does take place in politics.

For the individuals involved in the obfuscation there are no personal repercussions for their choices.

There is too much metaphor and obfuscation in words.

Even scientific obfuscation and perfidy come to play on many of these topics.

If this is really their position, then they should argue for it full-stop and without obfuscation.

First, it perpetuates a smoke screen of obfuscation between who pays and who chooses.

Yet the business world revels in obfuscation so as to tell others what to do without seeming to.

Complexity for its own sake and expressive obfuscation are not for this energetic and highly professional composer.

One never knows where truth ends and fiction or obfuscation slithers.

But watch out for obfuscation in how the school calculates the total cost of attendance.

Gonzales's obfuscation when it came to torture and warrant-less wiretapping:.

Moro, with his gloomy eyes and air of unfathomably patient ennui, was a master of obfuscation.

Some lawyers described the fixing of tickets as criminal if it involved the destruction or obfuscation of government records.

No misbehavior or exercise in obfuscation ever goes unnoticed.

But admittedly, this is all a mystical obfuscation on my part, no more than a narrative.

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obfuscation (ˌɒbfʌsˈkeɪʃən)

—n
	the act or an instance of making something obscure, dark, or difficult to understand

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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."

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