Usually means: Make clear information intentionally unclear.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word OBFUSCATE:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. obfuscate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. obfuscate: Merriam-Webster
  3. obfuscate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. obfuscate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. obfuscate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. obfuscate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Obfuscate, obfuscate: Wordnik
  8. obfuscate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. obfuscate: Wiktionary
  10. obfuscate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. obfuscate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. obfuscate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Obfuscate, obfuscate: Dictionary.com
  14. obfuscate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Obfuscate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Obfuscate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obfuscate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obfuscate: Rhymezone
  19. Obfuscate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obfuscate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obfuscate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. obfuscate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. obfuscate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. obfuscate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. obfuscate: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. obfuscate: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. obfuscate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. obfuscate: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obfuscate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obfuscate)

▸ verb:  To make dark; to overshadow.
▸ verb:  To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
▸ verb:  (computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.

Similar:
offuscate, adumbrate, opacate, obscure, darken, obumber, obscurify, blind, adumber, dark, more...

Opposite:
clarify, elucidate, explain, simplify

Types:
becloud, muddy, confuse, befuddle, perplex, bewilder, confound, discombobulate, more...

Phrases:
opposite of obfuscate, more...

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Similar:
offuscate, adumbrate, opacate, obscure, darken, obumber, obscurify, blind, adumber, dark, more...

Opposite:
clarify, elucidate, explain, simplify

Types:
becloud, muddy, confuse, befuddle, perplex, bewilder, confound, discombobulate, more...

Phrases:
opposite of obfuscate, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     smoke,     pewter,     onyx, more...



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