Concept cluster: Physical processes > Obscuring
v
(rare, archaic, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure.
v
To give a vague outline.
n
Intensity of light.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To shut; make or put to.
v
(chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
adj
Obsolete spelling of blank [(archaic) White or pale; without colour.]
adj
(of eyes or vision) Dim, unclear from water or rheum.
v
(intransitive) To become glad or blithe; gladden.
v
(transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
v
(intransitive) To become indistinct.
v
Alternative form of blur the line. [(idiomatic, often followed by between) To minimize or erode the distinction between two things.]
n
The property of being blurred.
adv
In a blurry fashion; lacking clarity
n
(countable) A treatise on the subject of thunder.
v
To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
n
Alternative form of clare-obscure [(art, archaic) chiaroscuro]
n
That which makes coarse.
v
(transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
v
(transitive) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
adj
Reduced to one half of the original number
adj
Becoming dense; thickening
adj
Able to be dimmed; able to have illumination decreased in brightness.
n
The state of being excandescent, of glowing with heat.
v
(transitive) to censor (an image) by blurring.
adj
(rare) Dubious, shady.
n
A thickening or swelling.
v
To make less distinct; to obscure any differentiation.
v
(transitive) To render turbid; to darken; to confuse.
adj
(medicine) Concealed; obscure; being a doubtful case of disease.
adv
completely apart; completely destroyed
n
(photography) A dark area of a photograph with little contrast.
adj
(of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.
adj
Relating to or employing obfuscation; obfuscatory.
adj
Tending to obfuscate; intended to conceal the truth by confusion.
v
Synonym of obfuscate
adj
(obsolete) Indistinct; slurred over.
v
(obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
adj
Acting or tending to confound, obfuscate, or obscure.
v
(transitive) To obscure.
n
The policy of obscuration.
adj
Tending to obscure; making something unclear or abstruse.
v
(transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
n
(colloquial, slang, used as a nonce only) The act of making something obscure, or (in computing) obfuscating source code etc.
v
to make obscure
adj
overhanging
v
(transitive, astronomy) To cover or hide from view.
v
(transitive) To make occult or hidden.
adj
Tending to obscure or occlude.
n
Obsolete form of obfuscation. [(uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.]
adj
Making or becoming opaque.
n
The action of making something opaque or cloudy
v
(transitive) To make opaque.
v
(transitive) To make, render (more) opaque.
v
(transitive, intransitive, rare) To make or become opaque.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To transform.
adj
Appearing to look deeply into; penetrating.
n
(medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
adj
Having subdued colors.
adj
Obsolete form of subfusc. [Having subdued colors.]
adj
Nearly truncate.
adj
Alternative spelling of sun-dried [Having been dried by the sun.]
n
Crookedness.
adj
Deprived of one of its parts or of its end.
adv
In a truncated manner.
v
(transitive) To make no longer obscure.
adj
(imaging, graphics) out of focus; blurry.
v
(obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.

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