obscure
/əbˈskjʊɹ/ verb C1- 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. · c. 1688', William Wake, Preparation for Death There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured in the writings of learned men as this.
- To hide, put out of sight etc.
He/she/it obscures · Past obscured · Past participle obscured · -ing form obscuring
Verb forms
- Base form
- obscure
- He/she/it
- obscures
- Past
- obscured
- Past participle
- obscured
- -ing form
- obscuring
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I said the origin of his fortune remained obscure.
At this moment the abbé pressed down his side of the shade and so raised it on the other, throwing a bright light on the stranger’s face, while his own remained obscured.
While we wait, time will be progressing, events will succeed each other; things which in the evening look dark and obscure, appear but too clearly in the light of morning, and sometimes the utterance of one word, or the lapse of a single day, will reveal the most cruel calumnies.”
As he spoke the bright, yellow light in the study was obscured by somebody passing to and fro before it.
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