Vaguen

Quick meaning: Vaguen is a verb meaning (transitive) To make (something) vague or more vague; to blur, to obscure.

Meaning

(transitive) To make (something) vague or more vague; to blur, to obscure.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become (more) vague; to blur.

Example Sentences

Mud causes most critics to invoke Beckett, and like that master Fornes [i.e., María Irene Fornés] "vaguens" the setting of her elemental characters.

This increasing ambiguity fits in with Beckett's strategy to ‘vaguen’ his text, as Rosemary Pountney has demonstrated with reference to the theatre.

[Rosemary] Pountney sees the term ‘vaguen’ in the play’s second typescript as ‘explicit testimony to [Samuel] Beckett’s policy of “vaguening” the later drafts of his plays’ (1988: 149).

To situate an image or a phrase on the boundaries of several interpretations—to "vaguen" the image—so the viewer/listener must work the consequences of the situation within neural maps of the cerebral cortex, is obviously a goal of any artist.

Word Forms

• vaguens
• vaguening
• vaguened

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blur, vague, smudge, blear, ambiguate, ambiguify.

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