Obfuscated

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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