Category:Obfuscate

Ob*fus"cate, a. Etym: [l. obfuscatus, p.p. of obfuscare to darken; ob (see ob-) + fuscare, fuscatum, to darken, from fuscus dark.]

Defn: obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [obs.] [written also Offuscate.] Sir. T. Elyot.

Obfuscate Ob*fus"cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obfuscated; p. pr. & vb. n. Obfuscating.]

Defn: to darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to Bewilder. 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.