0 past simple and past participle of obfuscate
1 to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally:
She was criticized for using arguments that obfuscated the main issue.
He mentions how, because the distinction is obfuscated, the separation can only be described as an 'ideological' one, clearly creating problems of objectivity.
But they also included noise - sounds that obfuscated the clean transmission of sonic meaning.
Parts of the mapping were easily explained, while other parts were obfuscated by the metaphor.
The simplicity is due to our use of proof term calculi and would, for example, appear obfuscated at the level of derivations proper.
The bourgeois government's unexpected generosity was, theoretically speaking, probably strategic: for cuts to be obfuscated they cannot be dramatic.
Extracts are usually obfuscated by large portions of dead code generated by arithmetical reasoning and existential quantification.
In the explanatory model, voters are assumed to have correct perceptions about transparent cutbacks and to be unaware of obfuscated cutbacks unless strong organisations mobilise them.
The logic is further obfuscated by the use of architectural and (simplistic) anatomical metaphors for complex physiological and psychological adaptations, as well as by the lack of probabilistic thinking.
