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obscuring

verb , present participle of obscure

Synonyms and Antonyms of obscuring

1 to keep secret or shut off from view

the investigative reporters obscured their real motives for visiting the company by pretending the story was about something else

Synonyms of obscuring

belying, blanketing, blotting out, cloaking, concealing, covering, curtaining, disguising, enshrouding, hiding, masking, occulting, papering over, screening, shrouding, suppressing, veiling

Words Related to obscuring

burying, camouflaging, covering (up), smothering

gilding, glossing (over), varnishing, whitewashing

beclouding, bedimming, befogging, blocking, clouding, darkening, eclipsing, obstructing, occluding, overcasting, overshadowing, shading

Near Antonyms of obscuring

bringing out, presenting

clarifying, illuminating

advertising, airing, broadcasting, getting out, proclaiming, publicizing, publishing, spreading

Antonyms of obscuring

baring, disclosing, displaying, divulging, exposing, revealing, showing, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking, unveiling

2 to make dark, dim, or indistinct

when it isn't obscured by smog, the view of the city from the observatory can be spectacular

Synonyms of obscuring

beclouding, bedimming, befogging, blackening, blearing, blurring, clouding, darkening, dimming, dislimning, fogging, fuzzing (up), hazing, misting, overcasting, overclouding, overshadowing, shadowing, shrouding

Words Related to obscuring

adumbrating, blotting out, concealing, eclipsing, hiding, obliterating, screening, shading

camouflaging, cloaking, covering, curtaining, disguising, masking, veiling

Near Antonyms of obscuring

exposing, revealing, uncovering, unveiling

Antonyms of obscuring

brightening, illuminating, illumining, lightening, lighting (up)

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