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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Obscure \Ob*scure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obscured
     ([o^]b*sk[=u]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Obscuring.] [L.
     obscurare, fr. obscurus: cf. OF. obscurer. See Obscure, a.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with
           obscured lights.                         --Shak.
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           Why, 't is an office of discovery, love,
           And I should be obscured.                --Shak.
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           There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by
           the writings of learned men as this.     --Wake.
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           And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame? --Dryden.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Obscure \Ob*scure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obscured; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Obscuring.] [L. obscurare, fr. obscurus: cf. OF.
     obscurer. See Obscure, a.]
     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.                         --Shak.
  
           Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should
           be obscured.                             --Shak.
  
           There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by
           the writings of learned men as this.     --Wake.
  
           And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame? --Dryden.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  obscured
     a.
     Made hidden, less visible, or dark.
     vb.
     (infl of en obscure  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  obscured
     a.
     Made hidden, less visible, or dark.
     vb.
     (infl of en obscure  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  obscured
     a.
     Made hidden, less visible, or dark.
     vb.
     (infl of en obscure  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  obscured
     a.
     Made hidden, less visible, or dark.
     vb.
     (infl of en obscure  ed-form)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  obscured
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm o bscure d)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  obscured
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en obscure ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb obscure)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/
  محجوب

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/ 
  zahalený

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/ 
  zakrytý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/
  hinweggetäuscht
     Synonyms: disguised, hidden, concealed, masked
  
   see: disguise, obscure, hide, conceal, mask sth., disguising, obscuring, hiding, concealing, masking
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/
  verdunkelt
   see: obscure, obscuring, obscures, obscured
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/
  verdunkelte
   see: obscure, obscuring, obscured, obscures
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/
  verschleiert, vernebelt, verwischt, verunklärt
     Synonym: obfuscated
  
   see: obscure sth., obfuscate sth., obscuring, obfuscating
  

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/əbˈskjʊɹd/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  148 Moby Thesaurus words for "obscured":
     abstruse, armored, beamless, beclouded, bedazzled,
     between the lines, beyond one, black, black as night, blind,
     blindfold, blindfolded, buried, caliginous, cased, ceiled, cloaked,
     close, clouded, coated, complex, complicated, concealed, coped,
     covered, covert, cowled, crabbed, cramp, cryptic, curtained, dark,
     dark as night, dark as pitch, darkened, darkling, darksome, dazed,
     dazzled, delitescent, difficult, dormant, ebon, ebony, eclipsed,
     encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, esoteric,
     excecate, filmed, floored, garbled, guarded, hard,
     hard to understand, hibernating, hid, hidden, hooded, hoodwinked,
     housed, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings,
     incommunicado, intricate, jumbled, knotty, latent, loricate,
     loricated, lurking, mantled, masked, muffled, mysterious, mystic,
     night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark,
     night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled,
     obfuscated, obscure, occult, occulted, overtechnical, packaged,
     paved, perplexed, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, possible,
     potential, privy, rayless, recondite, roofed-in, scrambled,
     screened, scummed, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered,
     sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, sleeping, snow-blind,
     snow-blinded, starless, submerged, sunless, swathed, tenebrious,
     tenebrose, tenebrous, tented, tough, under an eclipse, under cover,
     under house arrest, under the surface, under wraps, underground,
     underlying, unilluminated, unknown, unlighted, unlit, unmanifested,
     veiled, virtual, walled, walled-in, wrapped, wrapped in clouds
  
  

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