obscure

1. (transitive) 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.Examples: "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."Synonyms: becloud, bedarken, bedim, bemisttransitive

2. (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.Examples: "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."; "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 the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either."; "However, many people—including railwaymen—are only beginning to realise how great is the amount of civil engineering work necessary to achieve adequate clearances for high-voltage overhead equipment under bridges and tunnels; what is involved in the re-signalling needed to permit the increased throughput of traffic (in some places it is unavoidable, to afford better sighting of signals obscured by overhead electrical gear); [...]."transitive

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.Examples: "How! There's bad news. / I must obscure, and hear it."intransitiveobsolete