verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.
2. 2
   state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from wordnet
3. 3
   To distinguish one word or lexical unit (from a different one which has a similar form).

   "When necessary, the Greek spelling is disambiguated by an appended phonetic transcription."

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organizespecify

Antonyms

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ambiguate

Example

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"When necessary, the Greek spelling is disambiguated by an appended phonetic transcription."

Etymology

From dis- + ambiguate.

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