to befog
- verb
- /bɪˈfɔɡ/
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nublar
- Too many details can befog the main point of the presentation.
Examples
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The remembrance of Christ can be made in a way that befogs other memories, the memories harbored by those beside us at the table or of those who feel alienated from the table.
Academic text (2006) -
Torture does what the Russian writer Aleksander Solzhenitsyn described in The Gulag Archipelago: it "befogs the reason, undermines the will, and the human being ceases to be himself, to be his own 'I.'"
Blog text (11) -
The fog and rain befog the view of the mountains.
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The complicated instructions only serve to befog the students.
Synonyms
102
6.8
To make people not notice something by being more obvious
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7.0
Make something hard to see or understand
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3.6
To make something hard to see or understand
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4.4
To make something less clear or bright by covering it
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5.4
Hide something so you cannot see it or remember it
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5.2
To make something hard to see or understand
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3.1
To become covered with fine drops that make something less clear
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5.6
To make an image or sound unclear
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6.1
To make an outline, sound, or feeling less clear
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8.9
To make something less clear and hard to see, often by smoke, fog or strong feelings
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5.7
Covered by mist so you cannot see far
Make the view hard to see because of fog or smoke
Make something unclear or hard to understand
To make the edges of things look dim or blurred
To make something, like light and memory, less bright or clear
Look less clear as if covered by a thin mist
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word befog comes from the start be- (a small word part that means 'make' or 'cover') plus fog, the mist you see in the air, so it originally meant 'to cover with fog'. That's why to befog something is to make it unclear or hard to understand.