0 present participle of obscure
1 to prevent something from being seen or heard:
Two new skyscrapers had sprung up, obscuring the view from her window.
Managers deliberately obscured the real situation from federal investigators.
At the same time, while this arrangement helps to define ideal types, it also runs the risk of obscuring what the debate is really about.
This reverses the normal standards of evidence, obscuring the weakness of evidence ruling out genetics or individual learning.
This was narrow enough to prevent particles from obscuring each other in any one image, but wide enough to enable complete trajectories to be identified.
The trials, too, which came and went, give the impression of a ' rise ' and then a ' decline ' of magic, obscuring its perennial and persistent nature.
The former gave way to the system of recursive rewrite rules in the 1960s, obscuring the formal similarity of the two processes.
Thus, they helped to shape notions of consensus by defining limits of inclusion within mainstream politics and obscuring divisions within it.
Representationally, this immediately divorces the effect from segmental reduction, thereby obscuring the fact that both types of event result in neutralisation.
It is, therefore, no advance, and in fact an obscuring of the issues, to adopt for these reasons a conceptualist semantics.
