vaguening

Verb

vaguen (third-person singular simple present vaguens, present participle vaguening, simple past and past participle vaguened)

1. (informal, transitive) To make (something) vague or more vague; to blur, to obscure.
   • [Rosemary] Pountney sees the term ‘vaguen’ in the play’s second typescript as ‘explicit testimony to [Samuel] Beckett’s policy of “vaguening” the later drafts of his plays’ (1988: 149).1988, Rosemary Pountney, Theatre of Shadows: Samuel Beckett’s Drama 1956–76: From All that Fall to Footfalls with Commentaries on the Latest Plays (Irish Literary Studies; 28), Gerrards Cross...
2. (informal, intransitive) To become (more) vague; to blur.
   • As both artists [Samuel Beckett and Joseph Mallord William Turner] developed, their imagery vaguened. The result is imagery hazened, a studied, a crafted indistinction. Beckett thus situates himself (and his art) in the midst of such a late-modernist or early postmodernist ethos, exploring the...2004 January, S[tanley] E. Gontarski, “An Art of Incompletion: A Preface”, in Journal of Beckett Studies, volume 14, numbers 1–2, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6