ambiguate

English

Etymology

Stem of ambiguous (Latin ambiguus) +‎ -ate.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make more ambiguous.
   • 1993, Thomas N. Corns, The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

     Marvell is as careful here to ambiguate the nature of his poem's speaker as he was in presenting the 'forward youth' of the 'Horatian Ode'.

   • 2013, Jean Kirsch, ‎Murray Stein, How and Why We Still Read Jung: Personal and professional reflections

     To ambiguate Jung means to read his texts as ambiguous, even when the statements they contain appear superficially unambiguous.

   • 2016, Richard Gilmore, Searching for Wisdom in Movies:

     Immediately then Socrates will give counterexamples to this definition, ambiguating the definition. Laches will define courage as standing firm in battle. Socrates will ask about whether a person can be courageous in sickness, in business, […]

Synonyms

• complicate
• confuse

Antonyms

• disambiguate

Derived terms

• ambiguation

Translations

to make more ambiguous

• French: ambiguïser (fr)
• Hungarian: többértelművé tesz, több különböző jelentéstartalommal lát el / tölt meg / ruház fel
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• Italian: ambiguare
• Portuguese: ambiguar, ambiguizar

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Italian

Verb

ambiguate

1. second-person plural present indicative of ambiguare
2. second-person plural imperative of ambiguare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of ambiguare