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Obscuring vs Cloaking - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between obscuring and cloaking

is that obscuring is present participle of lang=en while cloaking is present participle of cloak.

As a noun cloaking is

the act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.

obscuring

English

Verb

(head)

    • cloaking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.
  • * Strype
    • to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings
  • * (Sir Walter Scott), Guy Mannering – or The Astrologer
    • I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings , his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.
  • The material from which cloaks are made.