Obfuscate

a.	1.	Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.
v. t.	1.	To darken; to obscure; to becloud. [imp. & p. p. Obfuscated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Obfuscating.]
	2.	To confuse; to bewilder; to make unclear. His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter. - Sterne. Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females. - Sir. W. Scott.

Verb

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obfuscate - make obscure or unclear Antonyms: clarify, clear up, elucidate - make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"

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