befog

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To envelop in fog or smoke.

   “Clouds of the most expensive incense befog the chancel […]”

2. fiil To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).

   “1871, Carl Schurz, Speech in the U.S. Senate, 27 January, 1871, in Frederic Bancroft (ed.), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, New York: Putnam, 1913, Volume II, p. 151, The voice of interested sycophancy is apt to fill their ears and to befog their judgment.”

3. fiil To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.).

   “How they had managed to befog the subject! What elaborate show-structures they had built up, with no result but to obscure the horizon!”