Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ambiguate
Participle: ambiguated
Gerund: ambiguating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ambiguate |
| you | ambiguate |
| he;she;it | ambiguates |
| we | ambiguate |
| you | ambiguate |
| they | ambiguate |
Perfect
| I | have ambiguated |
| you | have ambiguated |
| he;she;it | has ambiguated |
| we | have ambiguated |
| you | have ambiguated |
| they | have ambiguated |
Past
| I | ambiguated |
| you | ambiguated |
| he;she;it | ambiguated |
| we | ambiguated |
| you | ambiguated |
| they | ambiguated |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambiguated |
| you | had ambiguated |
| he;she;it | had ambiguated |
| we | had ambiguated |
| you | had ambiguated |
| they | had ambiguated |
Future
| I | will ambiguate |
| you | will ambiguate |
| he;she;it | will ambiguate |
| we | will ambiguate |
| you | will ambiguate |
| they | will ambiguate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ambiguated |
| you | will have ambiguated |
| he;she;it | will have ambiguated |
| we | will have ambiguated |
| you | will have ambiguated |
| they | will have ambiguated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ambiguate |
| you | ambiguate |
| he;she;it | ambiguate |
| we | ambiguate |
| you | ambiguate |
| they | ambiguate |
Perfect
| I | have ambiguated |
| you | have ambiguated |
| he;she;it | have ambiguated |
| we | have ambiguated |
| you | have ambiguated |
| they | have ambiguated |
Imperfect
| I | ambiguated |
| you | ambiguated |
| he;she;it | ambiguated |
| we | ambiguated |
| you | ambiguated |
| they | ambiguated |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambiguated |
| you | had ambiguated |
| he;she;it | had ambiguated |
| we | had ambiguated |
| you | had ambiguated |
| they | had ambiguated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ambiguate |
| you | would ambiguate |
| he;she;it | would ambiguate |
| we | would ambiguate |
| you | would ambiguate |
| they | would ambiguate |
Perfect
| I | would have ambiguated |
| you | would have ambiguated |
| he;she;it | would have ambiguated |
| we | would have ambiguated |
| you | would have ambiguated |
| they | would have ambiguated |
Imperative
| you | ambiguate |
| we | Let's ambiguate |
| you | ambiguate |
Verbs conjugated like 'ambiguate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ambiguate'
abligate,
abmigrate,
alligate,
ambiguify,
ambulate,
amidate,
aminate,
antiquate,
arbitrate,
debigulate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
6. Proto-Italic *amβi-
7. Latin ambi-
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
10. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
11. Proto-Italic *agō
12. Latin agō
13. Latin ambig(ō)
14. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
15. Proto-Italic *-wos
16. Latin -uus
17. Latin ambiguuslbor.
18. English ambigu(ous)
19. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
20. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
21. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
22. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
23. Proto-Italic *-ātos
24. Latin -ātuslbor.
25. English -ate
26. English ambiguate
27. Stem of ambiguous (Latin ambiguus) + -ate.
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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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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:]