adj
(botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
n
(obsolete) The act of sharpening.
adv
Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties).
v
(transitive) To obscure in darkness.
adj
Obstructed by a blockage.
v
(transitive) To obscure.
v
(figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
v
(idiomatic, often followed by between) To minimize or erode the distinction between two things.
adj
(of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
n
The simultaneous state of cantellation and truncation.
n
The material that clogs or obstructs.
v
To make something more complex; to complicate.
adj
(now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated.
n
(archaic) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
adj
(sound, voice) Low in pitch.
n
The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
n
Obsolete form of offuscate., itself an obsolete form of obfuscate.
n
(medicine) Retention due to a constriction; impaction, as of the head in the pelvic strait.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To affect with a rheum.
v
(literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
v
(metalworking) To apply a harder or tougher material to (a base metal) by welding.
v
(transitive) To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt.
adj
(medicine, usually) obstructed; Synonym of atretic.
v
To make or become hard-hearted.
adj
(obsolete) strengthened, as if with sinews; invigorated
adv
In an intricate manner; with involution or infoldings; with perplexity or intricacy.
v
(slang) To focus excessively on technical specifications (of a camera or other electronic device).
n
The process of making or becoming mellow.
adv
So as to melt, or seem to melt.
v
(obsolete) To draw over, as a covering.
v
To mark (a written or printed passage) with an obelus; to judge as spurious or doubtful.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To make firm; to harden in resolution.
v
(computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
n
One who acts to confound or obfuscate; an obscurantist.
adj
Being or relating to an obstacle.
v
(rare) To become or cause to become blocked up
n
Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally
adj
Being or relating to an obstruction.
adj
Causing obstruction; blocking up.
n
The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.
adj
That tends to occlude.
v
(archaic) to block, to stop up, to obstruct
v
(rare) To engage in ostrichism; to bury one's head in the sand; to deliberately ignore problems.
adj
(botany) Terminated abruptly, or as if bitten off.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To cause to be obtuse or dull.
adv
So as to be saturated; with complete immersion.
v
To make a system more complex so that the use of the system is easier or simpler.
adj
Contracted as if by a sphincter.
adv
In a manner that spreads out.
adv
In a tapering manner; growing thinner towards one end.
adj
hard to deal with, complicated
n
An utterance made so as not to be heard by most people in the area.
v
Obsolete form of oestruate. [To be in heat (state of sexual receptivity).]
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