obnubilate

obnubilate
obnubilation, n.
/ob nooh"beuh layt', -nyooh"-/, v.t., obnubilated, obnubilating.
to cloud over; becloud; obscure.
[1575-85; < L obnubilatus, ptp. of obnubilare to darken, obscure, equiv. to ob- OB- + nubilare to become cloudy, v. deriv. of nubilus cloudy; see NUBILOUS]

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  • obnubilate — verb adumbrate, becloud, bedim, blacken, blind, blur, cast a shadow, cloak, cloud, cloud over, conceal, cover, cover up, curtain, darken, dim, disguise, dull, eclipse, encompass with gloom, enshroud, fog, haze, hide, make indistinct, mask,… …   Law dictionary

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  • obnubilate — verb 1. make less visible or unclear The stars are obscured by the clouds the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley • Syn: ↑obscure, ↑befog, ↑becloud, ↑haze over, ↑fog, ↑cloud, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • obnubilate — transitive verb ( lated; lating) Etymology: Latin obnubilatus, past participle of obnubilare, from ob in the way + nubilare to be cloudy, from nubilus cloudy, from nubes cloud more at ob , nuance Date: 1583 becloud, obscure • obnubilation noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • obnubilate — 1. verb To make cloudy. There is here fine criticism, classic wit, poetic dreaming, and some grains of sound doctrine, but so obnubilated with the fumes of German metaphysics, that we become giddy (The Princeton Review, Samuel Coleridge) 2.… …   Wiktionary

  • obnubilate — É‘b nuːbɪleɪt /É’b v. fog, make hazy, obscure, cloud over …   English contemporary dictionary

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  • obnubilate — 1. To cloud or to obscure 2. To be clouded and obscure …   Grandiloquent dictionary

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