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Definition of Obfuscate
1. Verb. Make obscure or unclear.
Antonyms: Clarify
Derivative terms: Obfuscation, Obfuscation, Obfuscation
Definition of Obfuscate
1. a. Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.
2. v. t. To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder.
Definition of Obfuscate
1. Verb. To make dark; overshadow ¹
2. Verb. To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth. ¹
3. Verb. (computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but conceal its structure and intent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Obfuscate
1. [v -SCATED, -SCATING, -SCATES]
Medical Definition of Obfuscate
1. 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) Origin: Obfuscated; Obfuscating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obfuscate
Literary usage of Obfuscate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"obfuscate, obscured, darkened.—II. 73> 3^5- This obsolete word is merely the
English form of the Latin Obfus- catus, the participle of the verb Ob- fusco or ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"»Spec, dim (the eyes or sight, or the sight of), blur, purblind, blear, bund,
obscure, obfuscate (rare), mist. dark, n. darkness; spec, obscurity, ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"219,!. 15. —OF obeir,'to obey;' Cot. — Lat.obedire; see Obedience. obfuscate, to
darken, bewilder. (L.) ' obfuscate, or made darke ;' Sir T. Elyot, ..."
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