Obfuscate

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: "A great effort was made . . . to obscure or obfuscate the truth” ( Robert Conquest).
  • v. To render indistinct or dim; darken: The fog obfuscated the shore.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make dark; overshadow
  • v. To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
  • v. To alter code while preserving its behavior but conceal its structure and intent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.
  • v. To darken; to obscure; to becloud.
  • v. To confuse; to bewilder; to make unclear.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To darken; obscure; becloud; confuse; bewilder; muddle.
  • Darkened; clouded; obscured; muddled.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make obscure or unclear
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter   
    Variant
    offuscate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    obfuscated    darkened    obscured    confuse    bewilder