obfuscate
verb/ˈɑbfəskeɪt/
Frequency rank: #19,515 most common English word
Meaning
To make something unclear or difficult to understand, often deliberately.
Example sentence
The politician tried to obfuscate the truth by using complicated language and misleading statistics.
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