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词汇 obscuring
释义 obscuring
present participle ofobscure
obscure
verb[ T ]
uk /əbˈskjʊər/ us /əbˈskjʊr/
to prevent something from being seen or heard: 遮掩;遮蔽;使不分明
Two new skyscrapers had sprung up, obscuring the view from her window.两座新摩天大楼拔地而起,挡住了她窗外的风景。
The sun was obscured by clouds.太阳被云层遮住了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to keep someone or something from being seen
hideI'll need to hide the sweets so the children don't find them.
concealHe did his best to conceal his true feelings from his spouse.
secreteThe spies smuggled the films out of the country by secreting them in the lining of their coats.
cloakThe proceedings were cloaked in secrecy.
to make something difficult to discover and understand: 隐藏,掩盖;使难理解,使晦涩
Managers deliberately obscured the real situation from federal investigators.经理们故意对联邦调查人员掩盖真实情况。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hiding and disguising
be holed upidiom
booby trap
camo
camouflage
camouflaged
cloak
drown
hole up (somewhere)
illusion
illusionistically
illusively
illusorily
secrete
shroud
sidle
skulk
smokescreen
stash
stealthy
tuck

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Digressing and being indirect or evasive

Related word


obscurely

Examples of obscuring


obscuring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


At the same time, while this arrangement helps to define ideal types, it also runs the risk of obscuring what the debate is really about.
This reverses the normal standards of evidence, obscuring the weakness of evidence ruling out genetics or individual learning.
This was narrow enough to prevent particles from obscuring each other in any one image, but wide enough to enable complete trajectories to be identified.
The trials, too, which came and went, give the impression of a ' rise ' and then a ' decline ' of magic, obscuring its perennial and persistent nature.
The former gave way to the system of recursive rewrite rules in the 1960s, obscuring the formal similarity of the two processes.
Thus, they helped to shape notions of consensus by defining limits of inclusion within mainstream politics and obscuring divisions within it.
Representationally, this immediately divorces the effect from segmental reduction, thereby obscuring the fact that both types of event result in neutralisation.
It is, therefore, no advance, and in fact an obscuring of the issues, to adopt for these reasons a conceptualist semantics.
The timespecific scale score may simply be obscuring important issues of measurement invariance over time.
In these patients, fast retrograde conduction occurred through both the accessory pathway and atrioventricular node, obscuring differentiation of the two pathways.
Consumers, care management and inspection : obscuring social deprivation and need.
Additionally, the gradual diffusion of target-appropriate realizations has the further consequence of obscuring any presumed systematic relationship between the child's productions and the target system.
But only at the cost of obscuring how it works.
But to receive a coherent message accurately, modern listeners also had to learn to attend to genre's obscuring opposite - the noise of local interpretation.
But they may also invade our minds, obscuring what was called the common clinical sense, thus jeopardizing our ability to make the right diagnosis.
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