To obfuscate something means to deliberately make it seem confusing and difficult to understand. They are obfuscating the issue, as only insurance companies can Macdonald accepted that such information could be used to manipulate, to obfuscate, and to mislead. elucidate. to deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand (past participle of obfuscare, from fuscus )
[ 'äb-f&-"skAt; äb ] (transitive verb.) 1577. Late Latin obfuscatus, past participle of obfuscare, from Latin ob- in the way + fuscus dark brown; more at OB-, DUSK.