Ambiguate

Quick meaning: Ambiguate is a verb meaning (transitive) To make more ambiguous.

Meaning

(transitive) To make more ambiguous.

Example Sentences

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

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'.

Devlin's writings had fragmented the conservative position by conflating harm and morality, and had significantly ambiguated the conception of harm at the heart of the debate.

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, […]

Word Forms

• ambiguates
• ambiguating
• ambiguated

Synonyms for ambiguate

Depending on context, synonyms include complicate, confuse.

Antonyms for ambiguate

Common opposites include disambiguate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ambiguify, disambiguate, equivocate, vaguen, obfuscate, inturbidate.

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