From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Obfuscate \Ob*fus"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obfuscated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Obfuscating.]
1. To darken; to obscure; to becloud.
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2. Hence: To confuse; to bewilder; to make unclear.
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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.
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Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the
intellects of meaner females. --Sir. W.
Scott.
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