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Disambiguate

//ˌdɪ.samˈbɪɡjuːeɪt// verb

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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."

Etymology

From dis- + ambiguate.

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