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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Late Latin
Origin: , past participle of obfuscare, from Latin fuscus 'dark brown'

obfuscate

 verb
     
ob‧fus‧cate [transitive] formal
to deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand
—obfuscation noun [uncountable]
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