ofuscar

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin offuscāre (“to darken, to obscure”), from Latin ob- + fuscō (“to darken”). Compare French offusquer.

• Hyphenation: o‧fus‧car

ofuscar (first-person singular present ofusco, first-person singular preterite ofusquei, past participle ofuscado)

1. (transitive) to outshine

• “ofuscar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “ofuscar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “ofuscar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “ofuscar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “ofuscar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “ofuscar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin obfuscāre, from Latin ob- + fuscō (“to darken”). Compare Italian offuscare.

• IPA^(key): /ofusˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: o‧fus‧car

ofuscar (first-person singular present ofusco, first-person singular preterite ofusqué, past participle ofuscado)

1. (transitive) to obfuscate
2. (transitive) to confuse
3. (transitive) to wow, astonish

• “ofuscar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28