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obfuscate
v. confuse; muddle; obscure


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Obfuscation
For the term as used in computer science, see Obfuscated code. Obfuscation is the concealment of meaning in communication, making it confusing and harder to interpret.Obfuscation may be used for many purposes. Doctors have been accused of using jargon to conceal unpleasant facts from a patient. American author Michael Crichton has claimed that medical writing is a "highly skilled, calculated attempt to confuse the reader". B.F. Skinner, noted psychologist, commented on medical notation as a form of multiple audience control which allows the doctor to communicate to the pharmacist things which might be opposed by the patient if they could understand it. Similarly text-based language, like gyaru-moji and some forms of leet are obfuscated to make them incomprehensible to outsiders.
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obfuscate
Verb
1. make obscure or unclear
(antonym) clarify, clear up, elucidate
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(derivation) bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Obfuscate
(v. t.)
To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder.
  
 
(a.)
Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.
  

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