Obfuscate \Ob*fus"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obfuscated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Obfuscating}.]
To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to
bewilder.
His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the
ideas whirling round and round about in it, all
obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter.
--Sterne.
Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects
of meaner females. --Sir. W.
Scott.