obscuring

Verb

obscure (third-person singular simple present obscures, present participle obscuring, simple past and past participle obscured)

1. (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
   • They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   becloud, bedarken, bedim, bemist

   Antonyms:

   belight, beshine, alight, bright, enlighten, fire, illume, illuminate, illumine, illustrate

2. (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
   • It has been little altered over the years save for the addition of a platform awning which rather obscures the arcaded entrance to the booking hall.1957 August, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529

   Synonyms:

   conceal, occult, secrete, obliterate

   Antonyms:

   disclose, reveal, show, bare, bewray, betray, display, expose, find out, lay bare

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.
   • How! There's bad news. / I must obscure, and hear it.1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647...

   Synonyms:

   hide out, keep a low profile, lie low

   Antonyms:

   appear, show up

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