Meaning & use
Obfuscates
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Deliberately makes something unclear, confusing, or difficult to understand.
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The company's dense legal jargon obfuscates the actual terms of the agreement.
His rambling answer obfuscates rather than clarifies what really happened.
A note on using this word
Programmers use "code obfuscation" to deliberately make source code hard to read, often to protect it from being copied or reverse-engineered.
Words with a similar meaning
confusesmuddles
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Words with an opposite meaning
clarifiesilluminates
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