Meanings (ES + gloss)
obscuro
Dark, faint or indistinct.
His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
I found myself in an obscure wood.
conceptuoso • obscuro
Difficult to understand; abstruse.
The lock was of a kind that Watt could not pick. Watt could pick simple locks, but he could not pick obscure locks.
an obscure passage or inscription; The speaker made obscure references to little-known literary works.
conceptuoso • obscuro
Not well-known.
Of all the medical monsters Peter Hotez could have set out to slay, the Yale University researcher could not have chosen a more wily and obscure villain than the hookworm.
i need to be REALLY careful to not use any obscure words. otherwise my tweets might end up on a wiktionary page
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
obscurecer
To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.
c. 1688', William Wake, Preparation for Death There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured in the writings of learned men as this.
absconder (disused) • asconder • esconder • obscurecer • ocultar
To hide, put out of sight etc.
But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around…
It has been little altered over the years save for the addition of a platform awning which rather obscures the arcaded entrance to the booking hall.
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