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offuscate

offuscate is the obsolete form of obfuscate.

Meaning of obfuscate

Verb

obfuscate (third-person singular simple present obfuscates, present participle obfuscating, simple past and past participle obfuscated)

  1. To make dark; to overshadow.
  2. To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
    • obfuscate facts
    Synonyms:
    confuse, muddle, obscure
  3. To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
    • We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.

See all 4 meanings of obfuscate

Forms of offuscate

third-person singular presentoffuscates
present participleoffuscating
past participleoffuscated
pastoffuscated

Questions about offuscate

What is offuscate the obsolete form of?
Offuscate is the obsolete form of obfuscate.

Words near offuscate in the dictionary

  1. offtime
  2. offtimes
  3. offtook
  4. offtopic
  5. offtrack
  6. offuscate
  7. offuscated
  8. offuscates
  9. offuscating
  10. offuscation
  11. offuscations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: offuscate (page history and authors); obfuscate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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