obscured

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of obscure.

   Years of grime had obscured the painting's original colors.

   The report's dense jargon obscured its one important finding.

   Note

   The final e of obscure takes -d, and that spelling does two jobs: the simple past (grime obscured the colors) and the past participle after have or be, where by often names what is in the way (the road was obscured by fog). Keep it apart from the adjective obscure: an obscure poet is little known, while an obscured view, like the adjective for hidden, has something in front of it.

2. 2
   adjective

   Hidden from view, made less visible, or darkened.

   Drivers complained about the obscured stop sign at the corner of Fifth and Main.

   With partly obscured vision in one eye, she gave up driving at night.

   Similarhidden, blocked, concealed, blurred

   Oppositevisible, clear

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