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obnebulate

obnebulate verb: to cloud or obscure (something).

Verb

obnebulate (third-person singular simple present obnebulates, present participle obnebulating, simple past and past participle obnebulated)

  1. (literary, rare, transitive) To cloud or obscure (something).
    • The air was obnebulated with murky schemes.1969, C[yrus] L[eo] Sulzberger, A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs and Diaries, 1934–1954, Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company, page 100

Forms of obnebulate

third-person singular presentobnebulates
present participleobnebulating
past participleobnebulated
pastobnebulated

Origin of obnebulate

Borrowed from Medieval Latin obnebulatus, perfect passive participle of obnebulare (“to overcloud”), from ob- + nebula + -are. Compare obnubilate, derived from the unrelated Latin nūbēs.

Questions about obnebulate

What does obnebulate mean?
Obnebulate means to cloud or obscure (something).
What part of speech is obnebulate?
Obnebulate is a verb.
What is the past tense of obnebulate?
The past tense of obnebulate is obnebulated.

Words near obnebulate in the dictionary

  1. oblyrate
  2. obmurmuration
  3. obmurmurations
  4. obmutescence
  5. obmutescent
  6. obnebulate
  7. obnebulated
  8. obnebulates
  9. obnebulating
  10. Obninsk
  11. obnoctious

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