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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To darken; make dusky; obscure.
  2. In entomology, clouded with brown; darkened with a fuscous shade or cloud: as, apex of the wing infuscate.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To darken; to make black or obscure.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To darken; to make black; to obscure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings

Etymologies

  1. Latin infuscatus, past participle of infuscare; prefix in- in + fuscare to make dark, from fuscus dark. (Wiktionary)

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  1. darken
  1. obscure

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  1. discolor

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  • biocon Infuscate (adjective) means clouded or darkened (Oxford English Dictionary). Aug 13, 2011

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