ambiguate

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ambiguate

verb ambiguates · ambiguating · ambiguated

  1. transitive To make more ambiguous. 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'.

    Similar: complicate, confuse

Opposite: disambiguate

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verb

Opposite: disambiguate

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verb to make more ambiguous

Españolambiguar
Portuguêsambiguar, ambiguizar
Françaisambiguïser
Deutschkomplizieren, verkomplizieren

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@misc{ambiguate_2026,
  title = {ambiguate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ambiguate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}