"ambiguate" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1993, Thomas N. Corns, The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell",
          "text": "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'.",
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          "text": "To ambiguate Jung means to read his texts as ambiguous, even when the statements they contain appear superficially unambiguous.",
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          "ref": "2016, Richard Gilmore, Searching for Wisdom in Movies",
          "text": "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, […]",
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        "(transitive) To make more ambiguous."
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          "word": "complicate"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to make more ambiguous",
          "word": "ambiguïser"
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          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to make more ambiguous",
          "word": "többértelművé tesz"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "note": "több különböző jelentéstartalommal lát el / tölt meg / ruház fel",
          "sense": "to make more ambiguous"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to make more ambiguous",
          "word": "ambiguar"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to make more ambiguous",
          "word": "ambiguizar"
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      "sense": "to make more ambiguous",
      "word": "ambiguïser"
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      "sense": "to make more ambiguous",
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      "sense": "to make more ambiguous"
    },
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      "sense": "to make more ambiguous",
      "word": "ambiguar"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make more ambiguous",
      "word": "ambiguizar"
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