Hypertext Webster Gateway: "obfuscate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Obfuscate \Ob*fus"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obfuscated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Obfuscating}.]
To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to
bewilder.
His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the
ideas whirling round and round about in it, all
obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter.
--Sterne.
Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects
of meaner females. --Sir. W.
Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Obfuscate \Ob*fus"cate\, a. [L. obfuscatus, p. p. of obfuscare
to darken; ob (see {Ob-}) + fuscare, fuscatum, to darken,
from fuscus dark.]
Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [Obs.] [Written also
{offuscate}.] --Sir. T. Elyot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
obfuscate
v : make obscure or unclear [ant: {clarify}]
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