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 rhetoric that a job is a passion obfuscates reality: It is an economic contract, Simone Stolzoff argues.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
“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
In such a state I was, and I assume many of us are, in respect to the principle of "development" which obfuscates pedagogy, in its connection with the rudiments.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count
