Obfuscatecombobulate

To confuse or perplex someone by making things complex unnecessarily ,often intentionally.

The tech support guy obfuscatecombobulated me.

by Wordex December 9, 2025

obfustate

to provide an overwhelming quantity of statistics (often irrelevant and sometimes completely spurious) in response to an enquiry.

a practise often favoured by government spokespersons.

Prime Ministers Questions only provide Mr Brown with further opportunities to demonstrate his criminal capacity to obfustate.

by genericwaz January 19, 2010

obviscate

Similar to obfuscate, but instead of completely obscuring important or sensitive details from a document, only obvious details are obscured.

That Top Secret NSA document was merely obviscated and thus revealed the name of the target; this was due to the incompetence of whoever failed to properly redact the pdf before publishing it for the world to see.

by rochard May 1, 2016