obscure

²ob·scure

verb \äb-ˈskyu̇r, əb-\

ob·scuredob·scur·ing

transitive verb

: to make dark, dim, or indistinct

: to conceal or hide by or as if by covering

: to reduce (a vowel) to the value \ə\

— ob·scu·ra·tion \ˌäb-skyu̇-ˈrā-shən\ noun

The true history has been obscured by legends about what happened.
They accused the company of trying to obscure the fact that the product poses a health risk.
Throughout this book, the ground of fact becomes obscured entirely by a deep layer of speculative quicksand. —Helen Vendler, New Republic, 10 June 2002
But evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. —John Cheever, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 1990
… [Mr. Schuller's]… “Early Jazz” brought a sometimes Olympian precision to writing about an art that has often languished in the whale's belly of sociology, obscured by pretension and blubbery thinking. —Stanley Crouch, New York Times Book Review, 2 Apr. 1989
It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines. —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
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