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offuscare

to obscure; to cloud

verb ohf-foos-KAH-reh Rare
Mind & Emotions Mental States

Origin: Latin offuscare, 'to shade'

Also means

to blur, to dim

Usage Note

Offuscare can be literal ('smoke obscured the sun') or figurative ('grief clouded his judgment'). In its reflexive form offuscarsi, it means 'to become clouded' or 'to dim' — la sua mente si è offuscata ('his mind became clouded'). It conjugates regularly in the -are pattern and takes avere as its auxiliary.

Examples

"Le nuvole offuscano il sole."

Natural Translation

The clouds are obscuring the sun.

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