obscurate

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verb

To obscure.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbobscurate (third-person singular simple present obscurates, present participle obscurating, simple past and past participle obscurated)

present singular third person obscurates · participle present obscurating · participle past obscurated · past obscurated

  1. transitiveTo obscure.

    They often obscurate using colorful word games, theories, or specialty fads […]

    2007, George A. Peters, Barbara J. Peters, Medical Error and Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine, page 91
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    Though I do not concur in all the principles he has enunciated, yet I would not obscurate the brightness of his track.

    1854, United States. Congress, The Congressional Globe, volume 23, page 131
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