"ambiguate" meaning in All languages combined

See ambiguate on Wiktionary

Verb [英語]

Forms: ambiguates, ambiguating, ambiguated
Etymology: ambiguous(對應拉丁語ambiguus)的詞幹 + -ate。
  1. 使模糊,使模棱兩可 Tags: transitive
    Sense id: zh-ambiguate-en-verb-KfCkzhBS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: complicate, confuse

Inflected forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "disambiguate"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "含有後綴-ate的英語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語動詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ambiguous(對應拉丁語ambiguus)的詞幹 + -ate。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ambiguates",
      "raw_tags": [
        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ambiguating",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ambiguated",
      "raw_tags": [
        "一般過去時及過去分詞"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "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'."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jean Kirsch, Murray Stein, How and Why We Still Read Jung: Personal and professional reflections:",
          "text": "To ambiguate Jung means to read his texts as ambiguous, even when the statements they contain appear superficially unambiguous."
        },
        {
          "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, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "使模糊,使模棱兩可"
      ],
      "id": "zh-ambiguate-en-verb-KfCkzhBS",
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "complicate"
    },
    {
      "word": "confuse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ambiguate"
}
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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "disambiguate"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "含有後綴-ate的英語詞",
    "英語動詞",
    "英語詞元"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ambiguous(對應拉丁語ambiguus)的詞幹 + -ate。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ambiguates",
      "raw_tags": [
        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ambiguating",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ambiguated",
      "raw_tags": [
        "一般過去時及過去分詞"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "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'."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jean Kirsch, Murray Stein, How and Why We Still Read Jung: Personal and professional reflections:",
          "text": "To ambiguate Jung means to read his texts as ambiguous, even when the statements they contain appear superficially unambiguous."
        },
        {
          "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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        "使模糊,使模棱兩可"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "complicate"
    },
    {
      "word": "confuse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ambiguate"
}

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