All 3 Uses of
obscure
in
The Andromeda Strain
- Every time he tried to listen to the heart, the child shrieked, obscuring all heart sounds.
Chpt 14 (definition 1) *obscuring = making it hard to detect
- But at a million miles, it is completely obscure, because radiant energy decreases according to the fourth power of the radius.†
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- the forty volunteers each had died of obscure and horrible diseases no one had ever seen before.
Chpt 26 (definition 2) *obscure = not known to many people