🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

Ofuscar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: o-fus-kar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Obfuscate/ˈɒb.fə.skeɪt/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El lenguaje técnico puede ofuscar el mensaje."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To deliberately make something difficult to understand.

    "The lawyer's convoluted language served to obfuscate the true nature of the contract."
  2. 2

    To confuse or bewilder.

    "The technical jargon used in the report seemed designed to obfuscate rather than clarify the findings."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'obfuscate' originates from the Latin 'obfuscat-', the past participle of 'obfuscare', meaning 'to darken'. It entered English in the early 17th century, evolving to denote the act of making something obscure or unclear.

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