opacify
English edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from opacification; equivalent to opaque + -ify.
Verb edit
opacify (third-person singular simple present opacifies, present participle opacifying, simple past and past participle opacified)
- (transitive) To make opaque.
- Synonym: opaquen
- 1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8:
- At its best, psychoanalysis is the classic therapeutic technique for exploring unconscious processes. At its less-than-best, it is a jargon-opacified, oedipus-complicated, libido-theoretical, pseudo-scientific cult whose messiah is Sigmund Freud.
- 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 167:
- They haven't, largely, because the debate has been deliberately opacified, with nationalist and Conservative politicians in particular still seeking to portray British Imperialism as a source of pride and Britain as the "good guy" in the slavery debate.