OBSCURED

Definition: OBSCURED

OBSCURED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Obscure

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "OBSCURED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: OBSCURED

Books

• Detection and Identification of Visually Obscured Targets (Electromagnetics Library) (reference)

• Obscured catastrophe of Swift II and its lessons : the emperor's new clothes, or, the eclipse in technology (reference)

• Underground and Obscured Object Imaging and Detection/Volume 1942 (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Valley Obscured By Clouds (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Obscured By Clouds (reference)

• Obscured by Clouds [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [SOUNDTRACK] [IMPORT] (reference)

• Obscured By Clowns (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Japanese Carrier Division Three under attack by U.S. Navy aircraft from Task Force 58, in the late afternoon of 20 June 1944. Anti-aircraft shell bursts are visible in the upper right. Photographed from a USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) plane. Heavy cruiser circling at right, nearest to the camera, is either Maya or Chokai. Beyond that, obscured by the flash from gunfire or a bomb, is the small aircraft carrier Chiyoda. Credit: NAVY.

Reference prints, 1919-1920, numbers 2133-2377. River or lake with sun obscured by clouds II. Credit: Library of Congress.

Moon. Moon obscured by clouds. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The black round hole was obscured for a moment, and then the figure moved back

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

During laparoscopic cholecystectomy, when the anatomy is obscured, excessive bleeding occurs, or other problems arise, the operation should be converted promptly to open cholecystectomy. (references)

Children

Guyana

UNICEF has criticized the practice in which girls trade sexual favors for money, gifts, or help in employment or higher education, a practice sometimes condoned by their parents yet obscured by cultural norms. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

The real contribution of agriculture to the national economy is often obscured by its nominally low direct contribution to GDP (less than 4 percent). (references)

Uk

Concomitantly, unemployment as measured by the International Labor Organization (ILO), fell below 5 percent for the first time since ILO measurements were begun in 1984. Likewise, by the older claimant-count methodology, unemployment fell to 3.2 percent, the lowest claimant count since 1975. That said, rising employment in the service sector has obscured the fact that numbers in manufacturing continue to drop (a long-term and persistent trend). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "OBSCURED": become obscured ♦ involute closely coiled so that the axis is obscured. Additional references.

Ending with "OBSCURED": half-obscured, part-obscured.

Chinese 

遮暗 (Obscuring), 湮 (submerged). (various references)

Finnish

pimetä (be obscured, darken, grow dark). (various references)

German

verdunkelte (beclouded, dimmed). (various references)

Italian

offuscato (blear, cloudy, obfuscated). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

陰る (to be clouded, to be obscured, to darken, to get dark), 陰げる (to be clouded, to be obscured, to darken, to get dark). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かげる (to be clouded, to be obscured, to darken, to get dark). (various references)

Korean 

어둡게 하는. (various references)

Pig Latin

obscureday.(various references)

Russian 

затемнять затемненный (obfuscated, obscure). (various references)

Misspellings

"OBSCURED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abscure, obcsure, obcure, obscur, obscura, obsecure, obsurd, obsure, osbcure, oscura, oscure, oscuridad. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bescour, coursed, obscure, rosebud, scoured, sourced, subcode.

-2 letters: bourse, boused, cerous, coders, course, credos, crouse, crudes, cubers, curbed, cursed, decors, desorb, douser, durocs, escudo, redubs, roused, scored, sorbed, source, soured, uredos.

-3 letters: bodes, bored, bores, bouse, brose, burds, burse, bused, ceros, coder, codes, coeds, cords, cored, cores, corse, coude, credo, crude, cruds, cruse.

+1 letter: bescoured.

+2 letters: abductores, obduracies, obstructed, subcordate.

+3 letters: bloodsucker, counterbids, subdirector.

+4 letters: bloodsuckers, cloudberries, subdirectors, unobstructed.

+5 letters: backgrounders, reproducibles, subcontracted.