OBFUSCATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they obfuscate ... he / she / it obfuscates

Past simple: obfuscated

Past participle: obfuscated

-ing form: obfuscating

Meaning:

Make obscure or unclear

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "obfuscate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

clarify (make clear and (more) comprehensible)

Derivation:

obfuscation (darkening or obscuring the sight of something)

obfuscation (the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered)

obfuscation (confusion resulting from failure to understand)