"obscurate" meaning in English

See obscurate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: obscurates [present, singular, third-person], obscurating [participle, present], obscurated [participle, past], obscurated [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} obscurate (third-person singular simple present obscurates, present participle obscurating, simple past and past participle obscurated)
  1. (transitive) To obscure. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-obscurate-en-verb-u4Ill7mY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1854, United States. Congress, The Congressional Globe, volume 23, page 131",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2007, George A. Peters, Barbara J. Peters, Medical Error and Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine, page 91",
          "text": "They often obscurate using colorful word games, theories, or specialty fads […]",
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        "(transitive) To obscure."
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