All obscure synonyms

verb obscure

• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• disguise — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
• conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
• complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
• obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
• muddy — abounding in or covered with mud.
• muddle — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• belie — If one thing belies another, it hides the true situation and so creates a false idea or image of someone or something.
• blind — Someone who is blind is unable to see because their eyes are damaged.
• block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
• blur — A blur is a shape or area which you cannot see clearly because it has no distinct outline or because it is moving very fast.
• camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
• cloud — A cloud is a mass of water vapour that floats in the sky. Clouds are usually white or grey in colour.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• darken — If something darkens or if a person or thing darkens it, it becomes darker.
• dim — DIM statement
• eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
• mask — a form of aristocratic entertainment in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, originally consisting of pantomime and dancing but later including dialogue and song, presented in elaborate productions given by amateur and professional actors.
• misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
• shroud — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
• veil — a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
• adumbrate — to outline; give a faint indication of
• becloud — to cover or obscure with a cloud
• bedim — to make dim or obscure
• befog — to surround with fog
• blear — to make (eyes or sight) dim with or as if with tears; blur
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• cloak — A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
• falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• fog — a second growth of grass, as after mowing.
• grey — any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
• gray — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
• haze — vagueness or obscurity, as of the mind or perception; confused or vague thoughts, feelings, etc.: The victims were still in a haze and couldn't describe the accident.
• mist — a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
• murk — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
• overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
• overcloud — to overspread with or as if with clouds: a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
• screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
• shade — the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
• shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• wrap — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
• double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
• fuzz — loose, light, fibrous, or fluffy matter.
• gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.