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Antonyms for obscures
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : uhb-skyoor |
Phonetic Transcription : əbˈskyʊər |
Definition of obscures
Origin :- c.1400, "dark," figuratively "morally unenlightened; gloomy," from Old French obscur, oscur "dark, clouded, gloomy; dim, not clear" (12c.) and directly from Latin obscurus "dark, dusky, shady," figuratively "unknown; unintelligible; hard to discern; from insignificant ancestors," from ob "over" (see ob-) + -scurus "covered," from PIE *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see sky). Related: Obscurely.
- verb conceal, hide
- For there is a darkness which grows larger and larger, which obscures everything.
- Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman
- Pro-Japanese apologetics is dangerous; it obscures the realities of the situation.
- Extract from : « China, Japan and the U.S.A. » by John Dewey
- It is apparently the slowness of the process that obscures his mental sight.
- Extract from : « How the Other Half Lives » by Jacob A. Riis
- That's the 'bus—no; the tarpaulin hangs down and obscures the inscription; yes.
- Extract from : « The Open Air » by Richard Jefferies
- All is watery and opaque; the fog settles down and obscures the scene.
- Extract from : « Locusts and Wild Honey » by John Burroughs
- Anything which obscures the sense, or makes the passage hard to read is wrong.
- Extract from : « Compound Words » by Frederick W. Hamilton
- This obscures, though it does not obliterate, the air passages.
- Extract from : « Trees Worth Knowing » by Julia Ellen Rogers
- For the moment he obscures all the other men on her horizon.
- Extract from : « Contrary Mary » by Temple Bailey
- He is grandiloquent and turgid to an extent which often obscures his meaning.
- Extract from : « Anglo-Saxon Literature » by John Earle
- It is bad for the motion pictures because it obscures the producer.
- Extract from : « The Art Of The Moving Picture » by Vachel Lindsay
Synonyms for obscures
- adumbrate
- becloud
- bedim
- befog
- belie
- blear
- blind
- block
- block out
- blur
- camouflage
- cloak
- cloud
- cloud the issue
- con
- confuse
- cover
- cover up
- darken
- dim
- disguise
- double-talk
- eclipse
- equivocate
- falsify
- fog
- fuzz
- gloom
- gray
- haze
- mask
- misrepresent
- mist
- muddy
- muddy the waters
- murk
- obfuscate
- overcast
- overcloud
- overshadow
- pettifog
- screen
- shade
- shadow
- shroud
- stonewall
- throw up smoke screen
- veil
- wrap
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