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"Obscure" Definition

noun

Something obscure or unknown.

verb-transitive

Linguistics To reduce (a vowel) to the neutral sound represented by schwa (ə).
To make dim or indistinct: Smog obscured our view. See Synonyms at block.

verb

To make dark, dim, or indistinct.
To or hide by or as if by covering.
To reduce (a vowel) to the value \ə\.

adjective

Deficient in light; dark.
Far from centers of human population: an obscure village.
Indistinctly heard; faint.
Linguistics Having the reduced, neutral sound represented by schwa (ə).
Not clearly understood or expressed; ambiguous or vague: "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit” ( Anatole Broyard). See Synonyms at ambiguous.

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