obfuscate OB-fuh-skayt verb WS #29

to render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible; to bewilder or confuse; to make something deliberately ambiguous or difficult to understand

1. The witness seemed to deliberately obfuscate the facts to protect the defendant from prosecution.
2. The company's executives attempted to obfuscate their financial problems with creative accounting methods.
3. His verbose explanation only served to obfuscate what should have been a straightforward answer.
4. Legal documents often obfuscate simple concepts with unnecessarily complex language.
5. The politician tried to obfuscate the issue with complicated jargon and misleading statistics.