Meanings
present singular third person opacifies · participle present opacifying · participle past opacified · past opacified
- transitiveTo make opaque.
At its best, psychoanalysis is the classic therapeutic technique for exploring unconscious processes. At its less-than-best, it is a jargon-opacified, oedipus-complicated, libido-theoretical, pseudo-scientific cult whose messiah is Sigmund Freud.
1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 81 more example
They haven't, largely, because the debate has been deliberately opacified, with nationalist and Conservative politicians in particular still seeking to portray British Imperialism as a source of pride and Britain as the "good guy" in the slavery debate.
2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 167Synonyms: opaquen
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo make opaque.
Origin
- Latinopācus“dark”
- Englishopacify
Back-formation from opacification, ultimately from Latin opācus (“dark”); equivalent to opaque + -ify.
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