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

Example sentences :

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

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