obfuscate
verb (used with object)
to make unclear or hard to understand, especially deliberately.
obfuscates
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present tense formof obfuscate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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His bad-boy swagger externally obfuscates his heart of gold, but his goodness and morality are apparent.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
It was a scene rarely seen in Western Washington, which so often obfuscates celestial phenomena with clouds stretching so far into the horizon you wonder if they ever end.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
“The ‘tech worker’ designation obfuscates a lot of ways that some of our coworkers are already in more precarious situations than others,” Emily Mazo said.
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2022
Blockchain advocates are gearing up to fight after the Treasury imposed sanctions last week on Tornado Cash, a crypto “mixer” that obfuscates digital currency trails, and prosecutors in the Netherlands arrested one of its developers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
It heats the blood, thickens the animal spirits, and obfuscates the cerebrum with frenetical and lymphatic idols, which cloud the quintessential light of the pure reason.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
