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ambiguify

ambiguify verb: to ambiguate; to make ambiguous.

Verb

ambiguify (third-person singular simple present ambiguifies, present participle ambiguifying, simple past and past participle ambiguified)

  1. To ambiguate; to make ambiguous.
    • So the performer must understand what Mozart has done — that he takes our universal instinct of symmetry and plays with it, violates it, ambiguifies it, by using the equally universal process of deletion to operate counter to those instinctive symmetrical forces that operate in us.1976, Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard, page 105
    • Ultimately, however, even that recognition is ambiguified in Maria's refusal to confront the party responsible for her poisoned pregnancy.2002, Linda S. Myrsiades, Splitting the Baby: The Culture of Abortion in Literature and Law, Rhetoric and Cartoons

Forms of ambiguify

third-person singular presentambiguifies
present participleambiguifying
past participleambiguified
pastambiguified

Origin of ambiguify

From ambigu(ous) + -ify.

Questions about ambiguify

What does ambiguify mean?
Ambiguify means to ambiguate; to make ambiguous.
What part of speech is ambiguify?
Ambiguify is a verb.
What is the past tense of ambiguify?
The past tense of ambiguify is ambiguified.

Words near ambiguify in the dictionary

  1. ambiguations
  2. ambiguator
  3. ambiguators
  4. ambiguified
  5. ambiguifies
  6. ambiguify
  7. ambiguifying
  8. ambiguine
  9. ambiguines
  10. ambiguities
  11. ambiguity

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