Definition of "obfuscate"

obfuscate

/ˈɒbfʌskeɪt/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  When asked if Kelly could have been more transparent or truthful, that official wrote: “In this White House, it’s simply not in our DNA. Truthful and transparent is great, but we don’t even have a coherent strategy to obfuscate.”
  2018 February 13, Anonymous White House Official, “White House reels as FBI director contradicts official claims about alleged abuser”, in Washington Post
3. (computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
adjective
comparative more obfuscate, superlative most obfuscate
1. (obsolete) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.
  Quotations
  Also the vertues beynge in a cruell persone be nat only obfuscate or hyd : But also lyke wyse as norysshynge meates and drynkes in an sycke body
  1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published