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Meanings of obscure in English
Portuguese
encobrir Catalan
emboirar-se 
Synonyms
Examples for "hide"
Examples for "hide"
1
Hughes did not attempt to hide from the reality of the situation.
2
Wrap dresses are easy to wear and hide all your problem areas.
3
To really hide from, say, a repressive government, you need unbreakable encryption.
4
I was supposedly protected however I cannot hide from it at work.
5
They hide in the crannies of the underworld; politics is their protection.
1
Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant.
2
Maggots did indeed appear-squirmingalong the veil, longing to reach the meat.
3
The first sign was the rending of the veil of the temple.
4
Prince Djiddin was wrapped in the veil of a solemn personal seclusion.
5
I'm sure that reaching through the veil takes a lot of effort.
1
He was there and nothing in the future could obliterate the fact.
2
Success could provide the hard wind she needed to obliterate that cloud.
3
He hopes that time will obliterate your image; but that is impossible.
4
Therefore, Socialism, excluding competition inspired by self-interest would obliterate the social dividend.
5
Which is why it makes perfect sense to obliterate the stereotype itself!
1
Don't let one misunderstanding blot out all the positives yet to occur.
2
He did not pause to blot out the faces of the curious.
3
You cannot blot out the past: it is written, it is recorded.
4
He was implacable; he would blot out his enemy, kith and kin.
5
Also umbrellas and parasols entirely blot out the view of those behind.
Spanish
ensombrecer Usage of obscure in English
1
Be aware, however, that this data is extremely verbose and often obscure.
2
Former paramilitaries often mobilise political rhetoric to justify or obscure criminal intent.
3
LibSems have been held annually for 40 years, often in obscure places.
4
However, the molecular mechanism responsible for NMDA-induced β-cell dysfunction remains largely obscure.
5
However, a majority of this annotation is scattered in obscure data sources.
6
However, the mechanisms regulating ABO gene expression in epithelial cells remain obscure.
7
This time, however, the cards were unusually obscure, and difficult to interpret.
8
The longer and more obscure the words used, the bigger the contract.
9
The only problem is finding the right karaoke song -too obscure?
10
However, the molecular links between lipid metabolism and IL-1β production remain obscure.
11
The former sense is the more simple, the latter the more obscure.
12
This may obscure the usual rise in mortality with increasing systolic pressure.
13
Her words were visible wraiths in the chill; her expression was obscure.
14
The concern was lodged in two small rooms in an obscure office-building.
15
The latter part of this chapter is somewhat obscure in the original.
16
However, the molecular and cellular mechanism of adaptive reconsolidation still remains obscure.
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