ambiguate

English

Etymology

Stem of ambiguous (Latin ambiguus) +‎ -ate.

Verb

ambiguate (third-person singular simple present ambiguates, present participle ambiguating, simple past and past participle ambiguated)

(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

Italian: ambiguare
Portuguese: ambiguar, ambiguizar

Italian

Verb

ambiguate

second-person plural present indicative of ambiguare
second-person plural imperative of ambiguare
feminine plural of the past participle of ambiguare