obscure

verb, adjective26 collocationsAvg. frequency: 6.8

Very difficult to understand or not well-known at all.

Very difficult to understand or not well-known at all.

Quite difficult to understand or not very well-known.

Deliberately and intentionally difficult to understand.

To hide or cover something or someone so that they cannot be seen.

To hide or cover something or someone so that they cannot be seen.

To intentionally make something unclear or difficult to understand.

To hide or cover a great part of something.

Used to describe something that can be easily hidden or made less visible by other things.

To partially hide or cover something.

To partially hide or cover something.

To nearly hide or cover something.

To partially hide or cover something.

To hide or cover something to some extent.

To hide or cover something to a small degree.

To make a particular fact or the truth about a situation less clear.

To block the line of sight to something.

Used to state that something is not well-known or is difficult to understand.

Used to state that something appears to be not well-known or difficult to understand.

To change to a state of being not well-known or difficult to understand.

To continue to be not well-known or difficult to understand.

To be likely to make something unclear or less noticeable.

To have the effect of making something unclear or less noticeable.

To permit something to hide or cover another thing.

To be hidden behind something.

To be hidden within or by something, like a shadow.

Collocations with "obscure"

obscure + ...