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Synonyms for befog

make less visible or unclear

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He duly regarded the Ghajar issue as part of a conspiracy against Hizbullah warning that his party would deal with the issue as merely orchestrated by the Americans and the Israelis to befog world public opinion.
It's not just the Nazis and their apologists who befog judgment in Hotel Terminus.
The unique facility doesn't reveal its entirety at the instance of the guest's entry, as the steam's brume befogs everything in sight, save for whatever's within arm's distance: marble walls, marble sink, or the heated marble slab at the center of the room, called the gobek tasi.
FILE - Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, Awqaf Minister CAIRO - 6 September 2018: Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa launched on Saturday "Egypt without Addiction" initiative, asserting that any drug that dulls the senses and befogs the mind is prohibited in Islam.
It befogs me soon to think of the current condition of our country fallen prey to multitudinous pitfalls.
Conspicuous and unseeable, the body baffles and befogs, rattles and embarrasses--all in (mostly) plain sight.
(32) Finding that "[t]he meaning of the Act is plain" and "[a]pplying those provisions to this case is hardly complicated," Justice Scalia traced the statutory language explaining the prohibited conduct and defining the relevant terms and then declared: "End of statutory analysis." (33) Justice Scalia criticized the majority for its "result-driven antitextualism" that "befogs what is evident," and expressed his discomfort with the "judge-empowering principle" declared by the Court.
The icon of the Communist revolution, the starfish registers as the circumvolving principle behind the entire cinematic system of representational transformations and substitutions, of spectral doublings, of double- and triple-crossings that engulf Nabokov's novels, living on throughout all history--registering indeed as operator of "history" itself insofar as "history" names simply the appalling "upheaval," the principle of rotation that converts world into representation, metamorphoses matter into memory, and unleashes the entire nebula of shadows and shadow plays that, under the pseudonym "cinema," befogs the Nabokovian oeuvre.
"It destroys its inner vitality, blurs its vision, befogs its critical faculties, breeds inferiority complexes, and gradually but assuredly saps all the springs of culture and sounds its death-knell," he wrote.
1, 2 (1996) ("[T]he Court befogs APA concepts by sloppy and bloated opinions, which leave confusion in their wake.
The reduction of policy and social problems to technical or structural ones befogs the actual query about effectiveness.
The definition of khamr extends to anything that befogs or alters the mind.
The remembrance of Christ can be made in a way that befogs other memories, the memories harbored by those beside us at table or of those who feel alienated from the table.
(47) The authors described the conflicting results as "illustrative of the confusion and specious distinction which befogs with judicial wisdom the constitution lore of special legislation." (48)
This classical method of analytical writing makes for clarity and discipline, but sometimes Oakes befogs his distinctions with sub-elements.