obfuscate• Comedy obtrudes too to obfuscate matters still further.• Ideology, the ideas which rationalize a person's class interests, obfuscates scientific analysis.• This ambiguity obfuscates the distinct voices of Proust's text and de Man's and divides the responsibility for the proposition.• Politicians have once again obfuscated the issue.
Originobfuscate
(1500-1600)Late Latin past participle of obfuscare, from Latinfuscus“dark brown”