ambiguate

present singular third person ambiguates · participle present ambiguating · participle past ambiguated · past ambiguated

1. transitiveTo make more ambiguous.

   To ambiguate Jung means to read his texts as ambiguous, even when the statements they contain appear superficially unambiguous.

   2013, Jean Kirsch, Murray Stein, How and Why We Still Read Jung: Personal and professional reflections

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   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

   Devlin's writings had fragmented the conservative position by conflating harm and morality, and had significantly ambiguated the conception of harm at the heart of the debate.

   2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 7, in Illusion of Order

   Immediately then Socrates will give counterexamples to this definition, ambiguating the definition. Laches will define courage as standing firm in battle. Socrates will ask about whether a person can be courageous in sickness, in business, […]

   2016, Richard Gilmore, Searching for Wisdom in Movies

   Synonyms: complicate, confuse