(v.) to render incomprehensible (The detective did not want to answer the newspaperman’s questions, so he obfuscated the truth.)

1530s, from Latin obfuscatus, past participle of obfuscare "to darken," from ob "over" (see ob-) + fuscare "to make dark," from fuscus "dark" (see dusk). Relate [..]

In programming, an often practiced process to make code unclear for someone else to follow. It is an intentional effort to mislead or confuse. The term obfuscation is often used in virus issues. I think it is also a course, taken by all documentation writers, so that when they write documentation for larger programs or systems, often accounting sys [..]

Obfuscate means to make obscure or unclear. It is the concealment of intended meaning in communication, making communication confusing, intentionally ambiguous, and difficult to interpret. It can be d [..]

To render indistinct, to obscure, to perplex or bewilder.

(v) make obscure or unclear

To make dark; overshadow To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth. ''Before leaving the scene, the murderer set a fire to obfuscate any evidence of his or her identity.' [..]