See obfuscate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "alter code",
"word": "混淆"
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"ref": "1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:",
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