to obscure
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7.0
- verb
- /əbˈskjʊr/
:
ocultar
- My hope is that the plastic doesn't obscure the intricate designs that I've worked so hard on.
- obscure the fact
- obscure the truth
- tend to obscure
And I think that's gotten obscured by a couple of things.
- And I think that's gotten obscured by a couple of things.
- The problem is when the deep eye gets obscured by the useless mind stuff.
- Just to to focus on what what was obscured or what's not included.
- We would later learn that there's simply dark gas clouds obscuring the view behind it.
- You may regard this as in some sense obscuring our, our, you know, obscuring our findings, right.
- So that idea that they have these large social networks can really obscure the red flags.
- The Chinese economy is experiencing a severe slowdown, with its true state obscured by reported GDP growth.
- So when you call, when you use female language for a man, you begin obscuring what it is that he is.
- We have seen evidence obscured in order to create a false story about safety.
Examples
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The success of RtI adoption can obscure the complexity of putting RtI into practice.
Academic text (2013) -
The view was obscured with the rain on the window.
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OK, so like I said, by doing this, we obscure the details of the the current signal.
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- This will obscure his tracks.
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But the leaves are so thick, they obscure our satellite views.
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I want to remind you that the names of eight cardinals have been obscured.
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Unfortunately, debate over the tabby ruins obscured the true nature of the Spanish presence in the region.
Academic text (2013) -
Further up the winding road, a car passes him, obscuring his view of Eddy's Jeep.
Fiction book (1992) -
The assumption of the neutrality of space obscures a crucial factor in the production of social inequalities.
Academic text (2008) -
The fog will obscure the lighthouse from our view, making it hard to navigate.
Synonyms
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1.0
To keep something so others cannot see or understand it
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3.7
To hide something so people cannot see or find out about it
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3.7
To hide something so others cannot see or find it
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1.9
Make someone unable to think clearly or make something hard to 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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5.0
To cover something so others cannot easily see or understand it
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9.1
To make facts or information unclear on purpose
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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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8.2
To cover something completely so you cannot see or understand it
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8.9
To make something less clear and hard to see, often by smoke, fog or strong feelings
To make something hard to see or understand
To make something, like light and memory, less bright or clear
Look less clear as if covered by a thin mist
To make something less clear and hard to understand
Make something unclear or hard to understand
Antonyms
How Obscure
Surface Forms
Etymology
Obscure comes from the Latin word obscurus, meaning 'dark' or 'hidden'. To obscure something is like putting it into the dark so people cannot see or understand it, which is why it means 'to make unclear'.