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ambiguating

ambiguating is the present participle and gerund 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 ambiguating

What is ambiguating the present participle and gerund of?
Ambiguating is the present participle and gerund of ambiguate.

Words near ambiguating in the dictionary

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

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