obscure

to obscure the truth

Clouds were obscuring the moon completely.

Yes. Jonathan Gruber was pretty obscure until recently.

A red carpet now obscures exquisite floor mosaics.

And the rhetorical battle obscures important areas of agreement.

But even this weakened sunlight is often obscured for days by enormous dust storms.

No matter how heavy the clouds may be, they can't obscure this phenomenon.

Whenever you run into it, it always obscures the truth.

All these stuffy old white guys with their treatises and obscure terminologies.

For comparison, a planet the size of Jupiter would only obscure the star by just 1%.

He grew the bushy black beard that obscured his face.