Both Uses of
obscure
in
Main Street
- His lips said it, his anxious shoulder said it, his arm about her said it, as they halted on the obscure porch of their house.†
Chpt 4
- The pale snow, the prickles of old stubble, and the clumps of ragged brush faded into a gray obscurity.†
Chpt 15 *
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."