Obfuscate
Etymology
From Latin obfuscare, "to darken," built from ob- (here intensifying) plus fuscare, "to make dark," from fuscus, "dusky, dark." The literal idea is throwing shade over something. English kept the image exactly: to obfuscate is to darken a thing until the eye — or the mind — can no longer make it out.
verb · /OB-fus-kayt/
To make something unclear, obscure, or harder to understand, usually on purpose.
What it names
The right word when confusion is the goal — burying the real answer under jargon, hedging, or excess detail so no one can pin it down.
Example
The report didn’t explain the losses so much as obfuscate them behind three pages of restated metrics.
Related idea
Obscure (as a verb) can be accidental — a cloud obscures the sun. Obfuscate almost always implies deliberate murk.