The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Obfuscate \Ob*fus"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obfuscated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Obfuscating.]
1. To darken; to obscure; to becloud.
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2. Hence: To confuse; to bewilder; to make unclear.
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His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and
the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all
obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter.
--Sterne.
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Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the
intellects of meaner females. --Sir. W.
Scott.
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
obfuscated
Made unclear, used to describe source code
that has been transformed or written to make it as hard as
possible to read, usually for fun, as in the Obfuscated C
Contest. A japh is a kind of obfuscated Perl program.
The term is not normally used for code that has been
transformed for security purposes, e.g. to enforce some kind
of licencing mechanism.
(2009-05-14)