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verb (used with object), ob·nu·bi·lat·ed, ob·nu·bi·lat·ing.
to cloud over; becloud; obscure.
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obnubilate
1580s, from L. obnibulat-, pp. stem of obnubilare "to cover with clouds or fog."
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