Ambiguate

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make more ambiguous. transitive

    "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'."

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complicatecomplicateconfuseconfuse

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"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'."

Etymology

Stem of ambiguous (Latin ambiguus) + -ate.

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