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[ adjective ] making undecipherable or imperceptible

Synonyms

obscurant

Examples

"obliterating mists "an obscurant bank of clouds"

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

In_order to be saved , plasticity had had to be isolated ; and as the aspect of the subject was transposed into those clusters of more_or_less interchangeable and contour obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method , the subject itself became largely unrecognizable .

Related terms

destructive

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