Both Uses of
obscure
in
Snow Falling on Cedars
- Now the fog comes in thick and strong, a big fog, obscuring everything from sight.
Chpt 26 *obscuring = hiding (making less visible)
- The moon had risen already behind the island and hung just over the big bluff at Skiff Point—a quarter moon, pale and indefinite, as ethereal and translucent as the wisps of clouds that traveled the skies, obscuring it.
Chpt 27obscuring = making less visible or understandable
Definition:
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(obscure as in: it obscured my view) to block from view or make less visible or understandableeditor's notes: Although this meaning of obscure typically refers to seeing or understanding, it can also refer to situation where something makes something else harder to detect or as when a noise makes another noise difficult to hear. Similarly it can reference something overshadowing something else, as in "Her memory of her dog's death was obscured by her brother's death the next day."