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ambiguates

ambiguates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ambiguate.

Meaning of ambiguate

Verb

ambiguate (third-person singular simple present ambiguates, present participle ambiguating, simple past and past participle ambiguated)

  1. (transitive) To make more ambiguous.
    • 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'.1993, Thomas N. Corns, The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
    Synonyms:
    complicate, confuse

Questions about ambiguates

What is ambiguates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ambiguates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ambiguate.

Words near ambiguates in the dictionary

  1. ambigrammatic
  2. ambigrams
  3. ambigu
  4. ambiguate
  5. ambiguated
  6. ambiguates
  7. ambiguating
  8. ambiguation
  9. ambiguations
  10. ambiguator
  11. ambiguators

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